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Head of a Young Girl Turning toward the Right
François-Hubert Drouais1758?
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Although once attributed to the painter Louis Tocqué (1696-1772), this beautiful drawing of a young girl is closer to the work of another important portraitist of the 1700s, François-Hubert Drouais. The inscription at the lower left identifies the girl as a certain Marie-Thérèse, but this writing was probably added later, and we have no way of knowing for certain who she is.
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- Title: Head of a Young Girl Turning toward the Right
- Creator: François Hubert Drouais (French, 1727-1775)
- Date Created: 1758?
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 29.6 x 25 cm (11 5/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
- Provenance: Baderou, Paris, 1957 (according to 1979 sale cat.); Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Sonnenberg, New York; [their sale, Sotheby-Parke-Bernet, New York (5-9 June 1979), no. 85, repr. (as Louis Tocqué)]; purchased in 1979.
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.397
- Medium: black chalk, with stumping
- Inscriptions: lower left, in brown ink: [févrie?] / 1758 / marie theresse / agé de pres de 11 ans / des 11 ans
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: France, 18th century
- Credit Line: Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Collection: Drawings
- Accession Number: 2008.397
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