Dancer with a Tambourine

c. 1615

Jacques Bellange

Associated Names
Jacques Bellange

Artist, French, c. 1575 - 1616

The image features a sketch of a person from head to foot. The person is shown in a dynamic position with one arm extended forward holding a tambourine. Their facial features are detailed, and they have a neutral expression. The hair appears to be styled upwards or covered by a head piece. The clothing is flowing and draped, possibly indicating a long and loose-fitting garment with gathered sleeves at the wrist. The background is plain with no other objects or scenery, emphasizing the figure in the sketch.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk and graphite on light brown paper, laid down, with later framing line in black ink

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    Overall: 28.6 x 18.7 cm (11 1/4 x 7 3/8 in.)
    support: 37.3 x 27 cm (14 11/16 x 10 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1981.43.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Jacques Petithory, Paris); purchased by NGA, 1981.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1983

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 1983.

1989

  • From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth Century. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1989, no. 7 (cat. by Hilliard Goldfarb).

2001

  • Jacques de Bellange, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, 2001, 193, no. 36.

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 40-41, 276, no. 11 (color).

Bibliography

1990

  • Rosenberg, Pierre. "Review of From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth Century." Master Drawings XXVIII (1990): 432.

1992

  • Thuiller, Jacques. L'Art en Lorraine au temps de Jacques Callot. Exh. cat. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, 1992, under nos. 44 and 81b.

1995

  • Goldfarb, Hilliard. "Exhibitions in Nancy on the Art of Lorraine at the Time of Jacques Callot." Master Drawings XXXIII(1995): 66.

Inscriptions

lower left on mount in graphite: J. Bellange; lower center on mount in graphite, circled: 157; on verso, in graphite at upper left: Bellange; below that in another hand and turned 90 degrees: patro (?), underlinged twice/illeg.; in pen and brown ink at center: B.59 (boxed); in red chalk at lower right: J. Bellange

Wikidata ID

Q64580098

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