Woman in Front of a Fireplace
c. 1805–7
- Medium
- black chalk and gray wash heightened with white chalk, squared in black chalk, on blue wove paper
- Dimensions
- 46 × 37 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-191496
Marie-Élisabeth Godard d’Aucourt de Saint-Just, shown here, belonged to a wealthy French shipbuilding family. Louis Léopold Boilly probably created this drawing to present for approval the preliminary composition of d’Aucourt’s painted portrait. The grid overlaying the drawing suggests a direct transfer to canvas; the image changed dramatically in the painting, where d’Aucourt appears in a grotto, unoccupied. That composition aligned with gender norms at the time that placed women in the natural world rather than the cultural sphere. Perhaps still interested in the drawing’s costume and inter…
Provenance
and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1974.93
Registry history
- c. 1805–7 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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