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Study of a Nude Model

Artist Nicolas de Largillierre (French, 1656 - 1746)
Date1736
MediumCharcoal and white chalk on paper
DimensionsOverall: 11 1/16 × 18 3/8 inches (28.1 × 46.67 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Milton McGreevy through the Westport Fund
Object numberF59-60/1
On View
Not on view
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Exhibition History

Drawing and the Human Figure: 1400-1964, Iowa State University Art Department, Iowa City, May 24-August 2, 1964, no. 51.

Provenance

Devillon, by November 1736 [1];

John Tetlow (d. before 1840), Alkington Hall, Lancashire, UK [2];

London art market, 1959;

Purchased in London by F. Kleinberger Galleries, New York, stock no. C.1555, 1959 [3];

Purchased from F. Kleinberger Galleries by Durlacher Brothers, New York, stock no. 728D, September 2-October 22, 1959 [4];

Purchased from Durlacher Brothers by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1959.

NOTES:

[1] Inscription at lower right reads: “Novembre 1736/Devillon.”

[2] Lugt 2868, mark on verso.

[3] Kleinberger Galleries Records, Metropolitan Museum of Art, European Paintings Department, New York, copy of stock card in NAMA curatorial file.

[4] Getty Research Library, Los Angeles, Durlacher Brothers Records, Box 14, Ledger 1937-1966, copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.


Published References

Wallace C. Tomasini, Drawing and the Human Figure: 1400-1964, exh. cat. (Iowa City: Iowa State University Art Department, 1964).

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