Cleveland Museum of Art
Study of Hands (recto)
Pierre LenfantLinkedCulture matchlcp-451fbe16bde4
- Date
- 1700s
- Medium
- red and black chalk heightened with white chalk
- Culture
- France, 18th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 125010
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
After Pierre Lenfant served as the official battlefield artist to King Louis XV in the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–48), he and his family were awarded a lifetime residence at the royal Gobelins Manufactory on the outskirts of Paris. This delicate study in colored chalks may depict a weaver pulling threads in the textile factory. This drawing is executed in a technique called trois crayons , referring to the three colors of chalk used by the artist. It was especially popular among artists in 18th-century France.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Victor Spark, New York
- Provenance
- ?-1946: Victor Spark [1898-1991], New York, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH | 1946-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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