Jean-Baptiste Jouvenet (1644-1717)
Jean-Baptiste Jouvenet (1644-1717)

A nude seen from behind, holding a dagger and kneeling on a rock

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Jean-Baptiste Jouvenet (1644-1717)
A nude seen from behind, holding a dagger and kneeling on a rock
red chalk
264 x 161 mm.

Lot Essay

The precise handling of this drawing is comparable to that of a sheet in the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt, A. Schnapper, Jean Jouvenet, Paris, 1974, nos. 197, figs. 194. Other studies of the nude are illustrated in A. Schnapper, op. cit., nos. 196-225, figs. 187-214.

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