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Head of a Young Girl Turning toward the Right

Head of a Young Girl Turning toward the Right

1758?
(French, 1727–1775)
France, 18th century
black chalk, with stumping
Sheet: 29.6 x 25 cm (11 5/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.397
Location: not on view

Description

Although once attributed to the painter Louis Tocqué (1696-1772), this beautiful drawing of a young girl is closer to the work of another important portraitist of the 1700s, François-Hubert Drouais. The inscription at the lower left identifies the girl as a certain Marie-Thérèse, but this writing was probably added later, and we have no way of knowing for certain who she is.
  • Baderou, Paris, 1957 (according to 1979 sale cat.); Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Sonnenberg, New York; [their sale, Sotheby-Parke-Bernet, New York (5-9 June 1979), no. 85, repr. (as Louis Tocqué)]; purchased in 1979.
  • Vassar College. Centennial Loan Exhibition; Drawings & Watercolors from Alumnae and Their Families, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York [May 19-June 11, 1961. 1961. Mentioned: cat no. 64, Reproduced: cover
    Sutton, Denys. France in the Eighteenth Century. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1968. Mentioned: cat. no. 663, p. 121
    Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 9, p. 28-29
  • French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001); Dahesh Museum of Art (February 19-May 18, 2002).
    France in the Eighteenth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London (1968), 121, no. 663 (as Louis Tocqué).
    Centennial Loan Exhibition: Drawings and Watercolors from Alumnae and Their Families, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, and tour (1961), no. 64 and cover (as Gabriel-Jacques de Saint-Aubin);
  • {{cite web|title=Head of a Young Girl Turning toward the Right|url=false|author=François Hubert Drouais|year=1758?|access-date=18 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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