ID 1389981
Lot 62 | NICOLAS DE LARGILLIERRE (PARIS 1656-1746)
Estimate value
€ 5 000 – 7 000
Étude de trois mains, l'une tenant une lettre
pierre noire, sanguine, craie blanche, estompe
22 x 23 cm (8 5/8 x 9 in.)
Provenance
Vente anonyme ; Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 19 juin 2003, lot 100 (comme François Lemoyne), d'où acquis par l’actuel propriétaire.
Exhibited
Paris, musée Jacquemart-André, Nicolas de Largillierre 1656-1746, 2003-2004, n° 39, ill.
Further details
NICOLAS DE LARGILLIERRE, STUDY OF THREE HANDS, ONE HOLDING A LETTER, BLACK, RED AND WHITE CHALK
Although Nicolas de Largillierre made very few compositional studies for his paintings, several hand studies drawn using the trois-crayons technique are known, one of which is in a private collection (London, Stephen Ongpin Gallery).This is a preparatory sheet for the famous Family Portrait, formerly known, incorrectly, as Portrait of the Artist's Family, now in the Musée du Louvre (fig. 1; inv. MI 1085). The two hand studies in the upper part correspond to those of the young woman holding a sheet of music and singing, while the study in the lower part seems to be an initial thought for the hand of the mother holding her coat and finally resting on her lap. With this delicate and skilful use of the trois-crayons technique, Largillierre ‘sought pictorial effects not unlike contemporary drawings by La Fosse, Antoine Coypel or Watteau’ (op. cit., 2003-2004, p. 134).
| Artist: | Nicolas de Largillière (1656 - 1746) |
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| Applied technique: | Chalk |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic, Stone |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Artist: | Nicolas de Largillière (1656 - 1746) |
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| Applied technique: | Chalk |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic, Stone |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
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