A Dancer

1777

Jean-Michel Moreau the Younger

Artist, French, 1741 - 1814

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black, red, and white chalk on brown laid paper, with a faint border line by the artist in red chalk

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • 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


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