Portrait of a Man
1800
- Medium
- Black chalk with stumping heightened with white gouache on light brown wove paper
- Dimensions
- 22.1 × 17.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-210588
Although the size of this carefully worked crayon drawing is modest, it is actually much larger than a typical work by Jean-Baptiste Augustin. As a leading painter of ivory portrait miniatures in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Augustin stood out because of the precision and naturalism of his style. Although the sitter in this drawing is no longer known, Augustin's naturalistic technique and the sitter's slight, easy smile encourage a familiar connection with the viewer.
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin, 2008.406
Registry history
- 1800 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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