Claude Hoin
French, 1750-1817
An Artist Adoring a Statue of Virtue
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Claude Hoin
French, 1750-18171783
An Artist Adoring a Statue of Virtue
Claude Hoin French, 1750-1817 →watercolordrawings (visual works)
Date
1783
Medium
Watercolor and gouache, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
Primary support: 40.8 × 27.7 cm (16 1/8 × 10 15/16 in.); Secondary support: 47.5 × 34 cm (18 3/4 × 13 7/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Elegant and morally uplifting scenes like the one featured in this highly finished small painting in watercolor and gouache were highly desirable to French collectors in the years just prior to the French Revolution, especially as decorations for their private cabinets. Claude Hoin was a provincial artist who came to Paris to study with the moralistic artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze.
Also notable
Works in the same vein
Interior with a Portrait of a Young Lady Before a Bust
Claude Hoin French, 1750-1817
Portrait of a Young Man
Claude Hoin French, 1750-1817
Madame Dugazon in the Opera “Nina, ou La folle par amour” (Nina, or The Woman Maddened by Love)
Jean-François Janinet (French, 1752-1814) after Claude Hoin (French, 1750-1817)
