Standing Female Nude Seen from Behind | Harvard Art Museums

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Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1954.115
People: François Le Moyne, French (Paris, France 1688 - 1737 Paris, France)
Previously attributed to Jean-Antoine Watteau, French (Valenciennes 1684 - 1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)
Previously attributed to Nicolas Vleughels, Flemish (1668-1737)
Title: Standing Female Nude Seen from Behind
Other Titles: Alternate Title: Study of a Nude Woman
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: c. 1722
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/294179

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red, black, and white chalk on light-tan antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount

Dimensions

41.6 x 27.7 cm (16 3/8 x 10 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

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Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Possibly Nathaniel de Rothschild, London; Charles E. Dunlap, New York; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles E. Dunlap, 1954.115

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles E. Dunlap
Accession Year: 1954
Object Number: 1954.115
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Jean-Luc Bordeaux, François Le Moyne and His Generation 1688-1737, Arthena (Paris, 1984), cat. no. D. 81, pp. 157-58
Margret Stuffmann and Hildegard Bauereisen, Französische Zeichnungen im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, 1550 bis 1800, exh. cat., Die Städtische Galerie (Frankfurt, 1986), pp. 101-102
Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721: catalogue raisonné des dessins, Leonardo Arte (Milan, 1996), cat. no. R 101, pp. 1176-77
Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, Jean-Francois Méjanès, Alain Mérot, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Sophie Raux-Carpentier, William W. Robinson, Marianne Roland Michel, and Pierre Rosenberg, Mastery & Elegance: Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), pp. 184, 367-n.3
Alan Wintermute, Watteau and His World: French Drawing from 1700 to 1750, exh. cat., Merrell Holberton Publishers / American Federation of Arts (London, 1999), cat. no. 66, pp. 222-23
Alvin L. Clark, Jr., "To Delight the Eye": French Drawings and Paintings from the Collection of Charles E. Dunlap, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 2005), cat. no. 18, pp. 7-8, 12
Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), cat. no. 56, repr., p. 16

Exhibition History

Watteau and His World: French Drawing from 1700 to 1750, The Frick Collection, New York, 10/19/1999 - 01/09/2000; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 02/11/2000 - 05/08/2000
"To Delight the Eye": French Drawings and Paintings from the Collection of Charles E. Dunlap, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/17/2005 - 03/12/2006
HAA 271x The Origins of Modernity: The "New" 18th Century Rotation #2: Large Niche (S426A) Spring 2011, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 03/11/2011 - 06/18/2011
32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/19/2019 - 01/16/2020

Verification Level

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