Portrait of a young man

Details

CLAUDE-JEAN-BAPTISTE HOIN (DIJON 1750-1817)
Portrait of a young man
black chalk with stumping, heightened with white chalk, on light brown paper
21 x 17 in. (53.3 x 43.2 cm)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie’s, Paris, 27 November 2002, lot 202.
Private collection, Beverly Hills.

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

Claude Hoin was especially famous for his pastel portraits. However, several large scale drawings in black chalk heightened with white on thick paper, such as the present sheet, are also attributed to him. Among these is for example a large sheet, Portrait of a young lady, recently acquired by the National Museum in Stockholm (inv. NMH 28⁄2021; O. Magnus, ‘Claude Hoin. A Forgotten Polymath of L’Ancien Régime’, Art Bulletin of nationalmuseum Stockholm, XXVIII, no. 2, 2024, pp. 23-26).

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