François André Vincent
French, 1746-1816
Young Woman at a Table Holding a Cup
INV-1495
François André Vincent
French, 1746-18161790
Young Woman at a Table Holding a Cup
François André Vincent French, 1746-1816 →chalkdrawings (visual works)
Date
1790
Medium
Black and white chalks, with touches of red chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper, with margins in blue laid paper and pen and iron gall ink
Dimensions
Primary support: 46.2 × 44 cm (18 1/4 × 17 3/8 in.); Secondary support: 58.8 × 51.2 cm (23 3/16 × 20 3/16 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
When François-André Vincent made this endearing portrait of Marie-Gabrielle Capet in 1790, he had just been appointed professor at the Royal Academy and curator of the king’s drawings collection. Capet came from Lyons to Paris to study with Vincent’s life-long companion, the portraitist and miniaturist Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. Capet became her favorite pupil, then their housemate and model, and ultimately their caretaker in old age. The artist’s use of three chalks and deliberate grace reflects the preceding era of the Rococo more than the severity of the Neoclassical, revolutionary era.
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Large Female Head
Gilles Antoine Demarteau, the Younger (Flemish, c. 1750-1806) after Francois André Vincent (French, 1746-1816)
