
Collection Online as of December 7, 2023
(French, 1729–1802)
Black and white chalk on blue-gray prepared paper
Sheet: 26.3 x 21 cm (10 3/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2018.48
not on view
Volaire’s sketch of two women with a child is an example of the numerous figure studies he executed on blue-gray prepared paper with black and white chalk. This drawing likely did not relate to a later painting, but instead seems to have been produced as a visual record of the artist’s creative experimentation.