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Henri Lehmann

Studies of Draped Figures

1856

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Henri Lehmann

Studies of Draped Figures

1856

Physical Qualities Graphite and white chalk with stumping, Sheet: 383 × 241 mm. (15 1/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Friends of Art Fund
Object Number 1977.6
Three-quarter view of a woman seated, partially draped. Head frontal, but looking down. Proper right arm in a position to hold an object although the object is not depicted. Proper left arm bent at elbow with palm up at waist. A second study of just the proper left arm.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1977; Art market, Paris, 1975, according to Aubrun.
The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas
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Fisher, Jay McKean, et al. The Essence of Line: French drawings from Ingres to Degas. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005, p. 284-85, ill.
Marie-Madeleine Aubrun, Henri Lehmann: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre, Paris: Centre National des Lettres, [1984], Vol. I, p. 269, no. D.1220; ill. Vol. II, p. 274.

Inscribed: RECTO: Lower C, graphite, '5 oct 57'; LL, graphite, 'pls ample [?]'; 'moins droit'; VERSO: LR, graphite, 'vert'.

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Henri Lehmann

French, born Germany, 1814-1882
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