A Man Drawing, c. 1750

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Medium

black and white chalk on beige laid paper, laid down on old mount

Dimensions

sheet: 26.1 × 37.6 cm (10 1/4 × 14 13/16 in.)
mount: 37.6 × 51 cm (14 13/16 × 20 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2019.136.1

Artists / Makers

Jean-Baptiste Deshays (artist) French, 1729 - 1765

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower right in graphite: Eustace LeSueur / Etude par la vie [not deciphered]; printed number cut out and pasted on lower right: 178; by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: 18-022; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: Appartant de l2, Campredon(?) / [name not deciphered]

Provenance

(Charles Ratton & Guy Ladriere, Paris); purchased 2019 by NGA.

Associated Names

Ladrière, Guy