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.
Provenance
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.
Accession Number
2008.397
Medium
black chalk, with stumping
Dimensions
Sheet: 29.6 x 25 cm (11 5/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Credit Line
Bequest of Muriel Butkin
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