Jean-Baptiste Le Prince
French, 1734-1781
A Woman in Russian Dress
INV-1995
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince
French, 1734-17811780
A Woman in Russian Dress
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince French, 1734-1781 →prints and drawingchalk
Date
1780
Medium
Red chalk on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Regenstein Endowment Fund
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince traveled throughout Russia from 1757 to 1762, returning to Paris with exotic images of life in the country. This masterful drawing of an archetypal Russian figure bears the stamp at lower left of the Galerie Cailleux in Paris, where the sheet was exhibited in 1978.
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