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Woman in Profile, Turned to the Left
Henri-Pierre Danloux1784
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Danloux worked in Lyon from 1783 to 1784, specializing in profile portraits. Based on the date inscribed on the drawing, this unidentified young woman may have been a member of the aristocracy in that city. Danloux combined black lines with stumping—a method of blurring the powdery drawing media with a tightly rolled piece of cloth or leather—to achieve a greater range of textures and tones.
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- Title: Woman in Profile, Turned to the Left
- Creator: Henri-Pierre Danloux (French, 1753-1809)
- Date Created: 1784
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 23.7 x 20.7 cm (9 5/16 x 8 1/8 in.); Secondary Support: 30.9 x 28.9 cm (12 3/16 x 11 3/8 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.387
- Medium: Charcoal and black chalk with stumping on off-white laid paper, signed in brown ink
- Inscriptions: signed, center right, in brown ink: hP. Danloux / 1784 [underlined]
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: France, 18th century
- Credit Line: Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Collection: Drawings
- Accession Number: 2008.387
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