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Study of Drapery for a Kneeling Figure
Circle of Charles Le Brun · c. 1670
The figure is gone — only the cloth remains, which was always the harder part. Drawn by someone trained to make fabric carry the emotion the Academy would not let faces show.
- Maker
- Circle of Charles Le Brun
- Period
- c. 1670
- Origin
- Paris, France
- Medium
- Black and white chalk on blue paper
- Dimensions
- 38 × 27 CM
Provenance
Collector's mark, lower right (Lugt 1852?)
Paris art market, 1950s
Private collection, France
Part of Works on Paper
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