About This Artwork

Nicolas Lancret
French, 1690-1743

Studies of Old Woman Seated, Drapery, Head of Another Old Woman, c. 1732

Black and white chalk on brown laid paper
168 x 247 mm
Helen Regenstein Collection, 1971.529R

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 86-87, cat. 43 (ill. recto and verso), cat. by Harold Joachim.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "In Context: Recent Acquisitions to the Regenstein Collection," February 20-April 28, 1995.

Publication History

Harold Joachim, "A Group of Drawings by Nicolas Lancret," Liber Amicorum (Amsterdam, 1974), p. 102-09 (ill.).

Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 1F10.

Margaret Grasselli, Master Drawings 23/24 (1985-1986), pp. 382-83 (ill.).

Ownership History

Probably G. W. Knobelsdorff, Potsdam [Chicago 1974]; probably by descent to Andreas Kruger (died 1759), Potsdam [Chicago 1974 ]; by descent to his nephew, Andreas Ludwig Kruger (died 1822), Potsdam [notes in curatorial file]; by descent to his son, Friedrich Ludwig Carl Kruger (died 1828), Potsdam [notes in curatorial file]; by descent to his son [notes in curatorial file]. Sold by Adolphe Stein, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1971.