A Reclining Nude with Her Right Arm Raised over a Swift Composition Study [verso]

c. 1763

Jean-Baptiste Deshays

Artist, French, 1729 - 1765

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk with touches of red chalk on buff laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 46.7 x 27.5 cm (18 3/8 x 10 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1994.11.1.b

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).

Wikidata ID

Q64581121

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