A Young Woman Overcome by Love [recto]
c. 1763
Artist, French, 1729 - 1765

Artwork overview
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Medium
black and red chalks with brown wash on buff laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 27.5 x 46.7 cm (10 13/16 x 18 3/8 in.)
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Accession
1994.11.1.a
Associated Artworks

A Reclining Nude with Her Right Arm Raised over a Swift Composition Study [verso]
Jean-Baptiste Deshays
1758
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Paris, Nouveau Drouot, 11 March 1988, lot 79); (sale, London, Christie's, 6 July 1993, no. 141); (Succi Ltd., London); purchased by NGA, 1994.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2009
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 166-167, 285, no. 72 (color; recto and verso).
Bibliography
2008
Bancel, André. Jean-Baptiste Deshays, 1729-1765. Paris, 2008: 64, 228, no. D.101.
Wikidata ID
Q64581120