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Young Woman at a Table Holding a Cup

François André VincentLinkedCulture matchlcp-cc4387e07aff

Date: 1790
Medium: Black and white chalks, with touches of red chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper, with margins in blue laid paper and pen and iron gall ink
Culture: France
Department: Prints and Drawings
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 149541

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When François-André Vincent made this endearing portrait of Marie-Gabrielle Capet in 1790, he had just been appointed professor at the Royal Academy and curator of the king’s drawings collection. Capet came from Lyons to Paris to study with Vincent’s life-long companion, the portraitist and miniaturist Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. Capet became her favorite pupil, then their housemate and model, and ultimately their caretaker in old age. The artist’s use of three chalks and deliberate grace reflects the preceding era of the Rococo more than the severity of the Neoclassical, revolutionary era.

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Credit line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Provenance: Marie Gabrielle Capet (died 1818) [inscription]. Sold, Christie’s, New York, Jan. 30, 1997, lot 185, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.