About This Artwork
Nicolas Lancret
French, 1690-1743
Study of a Young Woman with a Watering Jugn.d.
Black chalk, with touches of red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on brownish-gray laid paper
260 x 138 mm
Restricted gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation, 1971.532R
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 80 and 82, cat. 40 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," January 24-March 28, 1976, p. 48, cat. 34 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1985-1986.
Publication History
Harold Joachim, "A Group of Drawings by Nicolas Lancret," Liber Amicorum (Amsterdam, 1974), pp. 102-109 (ill.).
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 1F6.
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.