A Dancer
1777
Artist, French, 1741 - 1814

Artwork overview
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Medium
black, red, and white chalk on brown laid paper, with a faint border line by the artist in red chalk
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
Overall: 29.9 x 23 cm (11 3/4 x 9 1/16 in.)
support: 61 x 46.5 cm (24 x 18 5/16 in.) -
Accession
1942.9.1202
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1940
Master Drawings: An Exhibition of Drawings from American Museums and Private Collections, Palace of Fine Arts, Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, CA, 1940, no. 71, repro.
1944
French Prints and Drawings of the XVIIIth Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1944-1945, no catalogue.
1950
The Eighteenth-Century Art of France and England. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1950, no. 85.
Masterpieces of Drawing: Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1950-1951, no. 67, repro.
1956
Fêtes Galantes. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1956 (no cat.).
1961
An Exhibition of French Masters: Rococo to Romanticism. UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles, 1961, no. 56.
1968
France in the Eighteenth Century. Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1968, no. 476 (Denys Sutton with Francis Watson).
2009
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 220-221, 289, no. 95 (color)
Bibliography
1875
Bocher, Emmanuel. Les gravures françaises du XVIIIe siècle; ou, Catalogue raisonné des estampes, eaux-fortes, pièces en couleur, au bistre et au lavis, de 1700 à 1800. 6 vols. Paris, 1875-1882: 6:95 (under no. 1368), 697, 713, 717.
1877
Portalis, Baron Roger de. Les dessinateurs d'illustrations au 18e siècle. 2 parts in 4 vols. Paris, 1877, 2 (pt. 1): 461.
1880
Goncourt, Edmond, and Jules de Goncourt. L'art du dix-huitième siècle. 2 vols. Paris, 1880-1884: 2:251.
1912
Cohen, Henri. Guide de l'amateur de livres a gravures de XVIIIe siecle. 6th edition revised and enlarged by Seymour de Ricci. Paris, 1912: col. 361, no.33.
1923
Clayton, Edward, ed. French Engravings of the Eighteenth Century in the Collection of Joseph Widener, Lynnewood Hall.4 vols. London (privately printed), 1923, 4: 559, 588, under no. 33.
Ricci, Seymour de. The Roederer Library of French Books, Prints, and Drawings of the 18th Century. Philadelphia, 1923: n.p. [8-9].
Inscriptions
by the artist lower right in graphite: J.M. moreau Le jne / 1777
Wikidata ID
Q64581593