Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine (1751-1824)

Portrait of a lady wearing a hat, arms crossed

Details

Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine (1751-1824)
Portrait of a lady wearing a hat, arms crossed
black chalk, stumped, the sheet extended on the sides to a circle
11½ in. (318 mm.) diam.

Provenance

Charles Lévesque; Paris, 27 March 1914, lot 6 (as French School).

Literature

N. Jeffares, 'Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, February 1999, p. 118, no. 138.

Lot Essay

Neil Jeffares dated the present drawing to 1796. Similar portraits of La citoyenne Crétu and another sitter, both dated 1796, were respectively in the sale of Marius Paulme's collection, Paris, 14 May 1929, lot 136, and Sotheby's Monaco, 2 December 1989, lot 219.

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