Friday, December 6, 2019

Red Chalk – French Drawings – 1600-1700

Pierre Brébiette after Paolo Farinati
Figure of Summer flanked by Pomona and Ceres
ca. 1630
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Eustache Le Sueur
Drapery Study of Roman Toga, and Study of Hand
before 1655
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Michel Corneille the Younger
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
ca. 1680-90
drawing
Harvard Art Museums

Jean de Saint-Igny
Personification of the Sense of Taste
before 1647
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Jean de Saint-Igny
Bust of a Young Man
before 1647
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Claude Villaume after Annibale Carracci
Atlante supported by Putti
(after a fresco in Palazzo Magnani, Bologna)
1646
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Jacques Sarazin
Study for a Statue of Autumn
(for the Château de Wideville, Crespières)
after 1632
drawing
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Claude Vignon
Cleopatra
1647
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Claude Vignon
Cavalier
ca. 1640-50
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum

Claude Vignon
The European Sibyl
ca. 1635
drawing
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Guillaume Courtois
Figure and Drapery Study of a Woman in Motion
ca. 1664-66
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Guillaume Courtois
Dock Scene
ca. 1660-64
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Guillaume Courtois
Study for Portrait of a Man
before 1679
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Guillaume Courtois
Two Studies for God the Father
ca. 1664-66
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Guillaume Courtois
Study for God the Father
ca. 1660
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago