Standing Figure [recto]

after Jacques Bellange

Associated Names
Anonymous Artist

Artist

Jacques Bellange

Artist After, French, c. 1575 - 1616

The image shows a person with curly hair, wearing ornate clothing and holding a long pole. The person is standing with one arm raised and the other arm at their side, with a slight curve in their stance. A hat with a feather is on their head. The background is plain and the artist's signature, "Bellange f," is in the lower left corner.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 29.7 x 23.6 cm (11 11/16 x 9 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1964.8.324.a

Associated Artworks

This is a drawing of mounted figures and sketchy faces. The drawing features two central figures riding horses in an animated posture. The individuals are wearing ornate hats or helmets, and the horses are drawn with expressive lines. To the left of the central figures, there are loosely sketched faces. The use of flowing lines and shading gives the image a sense of energy.

Figures on Horseback [verso]

Anonymous Artist

1594

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Private collection (sale, Geneva, Nicolas Rauch, 13-15 June 1960, lot 15, to Slatkin); (William H. Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA, 1961; gift to NGA, 1964.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1966

  • Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1966, no cat.

Bibliography

1964

  • "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums," The Art Quarterly 27, no. 4 (1964): 496, 503 (repro.).

1966

  • Pariset, François-Georges. "De Bellange à Deruet," Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français, année 1965 (1966): 64.

2001

  • Thuillier, Jacques. Jacques de Bellange. Exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes: 228, no. 51A (under cat. no. 51).

Inscriptions

inscribed, lower left in pen and brown ink: Bellange f.

Watermarks

Grapes

Wikidata ID

Q64533427

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