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| Study of a Standing Woman |
Artist:Angelica Kauffmann (Swiss, Chur 1741–1807 Rome)
Date:1792–96 (?)
Medium:Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on grey-blue prepared (?) paper
Dimensions:Sheet: 15 5/16 × 9 3/4 in. (38.9 × 24.7 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013
This sheet is a preliminary study for one of the mothers in Kauffman’s painting Let the Little Children Come unto Me from around 1796. The painting depicts a scene from Matthew 19:14 in which Christ blesses the children that are brought to see him. In this drawing, Kauffman meticulously renders the mother’s dress. Taking the paper as a base color, she shades in reverse, using energetic strokes of white chalk to bring out the luminous quality of the fabric. In the painting, the mother carries an infant in her left arm and holds the hand of another in her right, both represented on this sheet as faint outlines.
Provenance
John, Lord Northwick (British); his sale, Sotheby's, London (British), November 1–4, 1920, lot 388 (15s to Dr. Williamson); George Charles Williamson (British); Gottlieb Wütherich (German); his descendants; sale, Auktionshaus Stuker, Bern (Swiss), May 9, 2012, lot 1102; Vendor: Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel , Munich
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