Two Young Women Seated on the Ground [recto], c. 1698

Not on View

Medium

red and black chalks heightened with white chalk on light brown (originally blue) laid paper; squared in black chalk

Dimensions

image: 23.3 x 35.3 cm (9 3/16 x 13 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Millennium Funds/New Century Fund

Accession Number

2003.87.1.a

Artists / Makers

Charles de La Fosse (artist) French, 1636 - 1716

Image Use

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Inscription

vertically in pen and brown ink beside the right figure: 203; in graphite in a modern hand along the right margin at upper right: Coypel

Provenance

Private collector EB (not in Lugt, but similar to E. Bénézit's stamp); Private collection; (sale, Piasa, Paris, 4 December 2002, no. 51); (Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London); purchased 2003 by NGA

Associated Names

Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Thomas

Exhibition History

2004: Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005 (no cat.).

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 84-85, 279, 2009, no. 33 (color; recto and verso).

2015: Charles de La Fosse, 1636-1716: Le triomphe de la couleur, Musée national des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, Versailles, 2015, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

2003: Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "Charles de La Fosse, Two Young Women Seated on the Ground." National Gallery of Art Bulletin, no. 30 (Fall 2003): 10.

2006: Gustin Gomez, Clémentine. Charles de La Fosse, 1636-1716: Le maître des Modernes. 2 vols. Paris, 2006, 1: 186-187, 2: 195-196, no. D.44.

2012: Gustin Gomez, Clémentine. Charles de La Fosse, 1636-1716. Cahier du dessin français, no. 16. Paris, 2012: 17, 59, nos. 46 (recto), 47 (verso), both reprod., the recto in color.