Woman in Profile, Turned to the Left

Cleveland Museum of Art

Woman in Profile, Turned to the Left

Henri-Pierre Danloux

Date
1784
Medium
Charcoal and black chalk with stumping on off-white laid paper, signed in brown ink
Culture
France, 18th century
Department
Drawings
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

Danloux worked in Lyon from 1783 to 1784, specializing in profile portraits. Based on the date inscribed on the drawing, this unidentified young woman may have been a member of the aristocracy in that city. Danloux combined black lines with stumping—a method of blurring the powdery drawing media with a tightly rolled piece of cloth or leather—to achieve a greater range of textures and tones.

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