The Drawing Lesson
1777
Artist, French, 1746 - 1816
Artwork overview
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Medium
brush and brown wash over graphite on cream laid paper, laid down, with a framing line in brown ink
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 32.5 x 37.7 cm (12 13/16 x 14 13/16 in.)
overall (framed): 57.2 x 61.6 cm (22 1/2 x 24 1/4 in.) -
Accession
2000.99.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Paul Cailleux, Paris (stamp at lower right, not in Lugt), and by descent; Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 1997; private collection; Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 2000; Private collection; partial and promised gift.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1947
La Suède et Paris, Musée Carnavalet, Paris, 1947, no. 533 ("on deposit at the Institut Tessin, Paris").
1950
French Master Drawings of the 18th Century, Matthiesen Gallery, London, 1950, no. 88.
1951
Le dessin français de Watteau à Prud'hon, Galerie Cailleux, Paris, 1951, no. 147.
2000
Art for the Nation:Collecting for a New Century, NGA, Washington, D.C., 2000, 194-195.
2007
Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007, no. 65 (entry by Margaret Morgan Grasselli).
2009
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 230-231, 289, no. 100 (color).
2012
Drawn to Excellence: Renaissance to Romantic Drawings from a Private Collection. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, and Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2012, 14, 78, no. 74 (not reprod.).
Bibliography
1948
Lundberg, Gunnar W. "La Suède et Paris," Konsthistorisk Tidskrift 17, nos. 2-3, October 1948, 63, fig. 30.
1949
Sutton, Denys. French Drawings of the 18th Century. London, 1949: 60, pl. LVI.
1952
Boucher, François. Le dessin français au XVIIIe siècle. Lausanne, 1952: xviii, 178, pl. 123.
1983
Cuzin, Jean-Pierre. "De Fragonard à Vincent." Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art français, Année 1981 1983: 107, 109, fig. 8.
1987
Roland Michel, Marianne. Le dessin français au XVIIIe siècle. Fribourg, 1987: 27, 106, fig. 36.
1988
Cuzin, Jean-Pierre. François-André Vincent, 1746-1816. Paris, 1988: no. 27.
1990
J. H. Fragonard et H. Robert a Roma. Exh. cat. Villa Medici, Rome, 1990-1991: under no. 170, fig. 170a.
2010
Stein, Perrin. "French Drawings, Washington," The Burlington Magazine 102 (January 2010): 66.
Inscriptions
by the artist at lower left in brown ink: Vincent 1777.
Wikidata ID
Q64569772