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Lot Essay
Probablement inspiré de l'Hermaphrodite des collections Borghese, Marguerite Lecomte réalise cette étude lors de son séjour à Rome alors qu'elle est encore dans l'atelier de son professeur Claude-Henri Watelet (1718-1786). 1764, l'année de réalisation du dessin est également l'année où ils feront la connaissance de Joachim Winckelmann lors de son séjour dans la ville éternelle et découvriront ses théories sur le néoclassicisme (A Visit to Rome in 1764, cat. exp., Cambridge, The Fogg Art Museum et the Harvard College Library, 1956).
Probably inspired by the Hermaphrodite of the Borghese collections, Marguerite Lecomte made this drawing during her stay in Rome when she was still in the studio of her teacher Claude-Henri Watelet (1718-1786). 1764, the year in which the drawing is dated, is also the year in which they met Johann Joachim Winckelmann during his stay in the Eternal City, and in which they became acquainted with his Neoclassical theories (A Visit to Rome in 1764, exhib. cat., Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum and Harvard College Library, 1955).
Probably inspired by the Hermaphrodite of the Borghese collections, Marguerite Lecomte made this drawing during her stay in Rome when she was still in the studio of her teacher Claude-Henri Watelet (1718-1786). 1764, the year in which the drawing is dated, is also the year in which they met Johann Joachim Winckelmann during his stay in the Eternal City, and in which they became acquainted with his Neoclassical theories (A Visit to Rome in 1764, exhib. cat., Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum and Harvard College Library, 1955).
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