Standing Woman

c. 1730

Jean-Baptiste Oudry

Associated Names
Jean-Baptiste Oudry

Artist, French, 1686 - 1755

The image is a sketch showing a full-length view of a person standing, positioned slightly turned to the side. The person appears to be a woman with delicate facial features. Her hair is styled in an updo, adorned with what seems to be a crown or a decorative hairpiece. She is dressed in a voluminous gown with wide sleeves and a defined waist that flares out into a full skirt. The hands are elegantly posed. The background is plain.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on gray laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 22.7 × 17.1 cm (8 15/16 × 6 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2017.159.6

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Drouot, Paris, 1 March 1983, no. 135, as attrib. to Philippe Mercier). (Galerie Cailleux, Paris, as Nicolas Lancret); Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, 1996, inv. D-F-371; placed on long-term loan at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, inv. 1.1996.40 (returned in 20xx); gift to NGA in 2017

Associated Names

Bibliography

1998

  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr., et al. Mastery and Elegance: Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz. Exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, and elsewhere (Cambridge, 1998): 36 (fig. 18), 50 (note 65), 420-421, no. A.183 (as Nicolas Lancret).

2006

  • Eidelbert, Martin. "Philippe Mercier as a Draftsman." Master Drawings 44, no. 4 (Winter, 2006): 436-437, cat. X25 (as attrib. to J.-B. Oudry).

2017

  • Michel, Christian. "Marianne Roland Michel and Eighteenth-Century French Art," in Tradition and Transitions: Eighteenth-Century French Art from the Horvitz Collection, exh. cat. Petit Palais, Paris, 2017: 25, 27 (note 9), fig. 7 (color).

Inscriptions

by later hand, upper left verso in pen and ink: 332; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: [not deciphered]; by laterr hand, lower right verso in graphite: 1.1996.40 / [top half of an undeciphered inscription]

Wikidata ID

Q64581174

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