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Study for a standing échevin

Maker

(artist)
1645-1730

Title

Study for a standing échevin

Date of Production

(circa) 1682

Medium

black and white chalk on green laid paper with brown ink framing lines, laid down on a support also with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 51.4 cm
Width: 30.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1958.WF.4677

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Fund, purchase, 1958 (December)

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords






Label Text

This study of an échevin (an elected municipal official) relates to De Troy’s 'Allegory of the birth of the Duke of Burgundy', a large group portrait commissioned by the city of Paris (now lost). The figure is likely a studio assistant whom De Troy used to model the pose, the rhetorical gesture and the traditional velvet robe. He would have studied the head in oils directly from the sitter himself; a number of such surviving studies attest to this aspect of De Troy’s portrait practice.

Provenance

Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville, Paris (1680-1765), L.2951; probably his estate sale, P. Rémy (Paris), 18 - 28 January 1779, lot 368 or 404; Manning Gallery (London), 4-22 November 1958; purchased there by The Courtauld via the Witt Fund

Exhibition History

Special Display - French Portraits, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/06/2013-02/09/2013

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 04/07/1991-06/10/1991

France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 06/01/1968-03/03/1968 ...More

Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966

A selection of drawings from the Witt collection: French drawings c. 1600-c. 1800, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1962

French Master Drawings, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, 1962

French Masters - Rococo to Romanticism, UCLA, Los Angeles, 1961

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 01/09/1960-01/10/1960

Tenth exhibition of English and continental drawings, Manning Gallery, London, 04/11/1958-22/11/1958 ...Less

Literature

Prat, Louis-Antoine, Le dessin français au XVIIe siècle, Paris 2013
unpag.
fig. 1024

François de Troy (1645-1730), Musée Paul-Dupuy, Toulouse, 1997
p. 111
fig. 3 on p. 111

Borne, François, 'Excellence in obscurity: French drawings at the Courtauld Institute of Art' in 'Apollo', September 1991 - pp. 192-94; CXXXIV, 355
p. 194
fig. 1 on p. 192 ...More

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1991
no. 19, p. 44
ill. on p. 45

Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966
cat. no. 39

France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1967-1968
cat. no. 685
as by Jean-Francois de Troy

Rosenberg, Pierre, 'Le XVIIIe siecle francais a la Royal Academy' in 'Revue de l'Art', 1969 - pp. 98-99; 3
p. 100, no. 3

Rosenberg, Pierre, Il seicento francese, Milan 1970
p. 93
fig. 37

Vitzthum, Walter, I disegni dei maestri: il seicento francese, Fratelli Fabbri 1971
fig. 37

Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours from the Spooner and Witt Collections, Australia, New Zealand, 1976 - 1978
cat. no. 78 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: none visible in the drawing. Support (historic), Verso: only visible in raking light: a building with a chimney and door (nothing similar found in Heawood)?

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, brown ink, L.2951: “no. 2989" followed by paraph of Dezallier d'Argenville; lower right corner, brown ink, signed?: “De Troy Pere.”. Support (historic), Verso: lower right, graphite: “27750-777”.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, written in brown ink: Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville (L.2951).

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