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Bust of a Nude Woman

Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine1780

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States

Lemoine was famous for his black chalk portraits like this example of a bust of a nude girl. Given the sitter’s individualized features, this image could represent a specific portrait; however, her identity is now lost to modern viewers. Below the portrait on the blue oval mount, the artist signed and dated the work to indicate his authorship.

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  • Title: Bust of a Nude Woman
  • Creator: Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine (French, 1751-1824)
  • Date Created: 1780
  • Physical Dimensions: height: 12.2 cm (4 13/16 in.); Diameter: 10 cm (3 15/16 in.)
  • Type: Drawing
  • Rights: CC0
  • External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.214
  • Medium: Black chalk and stumping
  • Inscriptions: lower center, on original mount, in black ink: Lemoine 1780, verso of card: upper left, in graphite: EUEW / BWLG; upper center, in graphite: Jacques Antoine Marie LEMOINE / 1780; upper center, in graphite: Provenance: / V. Sardou (Auction 27/4/1909 no. 94) / Albert Lehman (Auction 8/6/1925 no. 161) / René Friburg (Auction 16/10/1963 no. 582); center, in graphite: Illustrated in the “Connoisseur” Dec 1969
  • Department: Drawings
  • Culture: France
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Muriel Butkin
  • Collection: DR - French
  • Accession Number: 2017.214
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