Cleveland Museum of Art
Portrait of a Man
Jean-Baptiste Jacques AugustinLinkedCulture matchlcp-f27b33e872e8
- Date
- 1800
- Medium
- Black chalk with stumping heightened with white gouache on light brown wove paper
- Culture
- France, late 18th-early 19th Century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 166697
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Although the size of this carefully worked crayon drawing is modest, it is actually much larger than a typical work by Jean-Baptiste Augustin. As a leading painter of ivory portrait miniatures in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Augustin stood out because of the precision and naturalism of his style. Although the sitter in this drawing is no longer known, Augustin's naturalistic technique and the sitter's slight, easy smile encourage a familiar connection with the viewer.
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- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
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