About This Artwork

Nicolas Lancret
French, 1690-1743

Study: Young Woman Standing Hand on Hip, n.d.

Black crayon on buff laid paper
244 x 197 mm
Restricted gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation, 1971.528

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 88-89, cat. 44 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.

Publication History

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

Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 1F11.

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 (1743-1822), Potsdam; by descent to his son, Friedrich Ludwig Carl Kruger (1776-1828), Potsdam; by descent to his son. Sold by Adolphe Stein, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1971.