Sketch of the Portrait of Constance Pipelet (recto); Head of a Woman (verso)

Prints and Drawings

after 1797

Jean Baptiste François Désoria
French, 1758-1832

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean Baptiste François Désoria
Title: Sketch of the Portrait of Constance Pipelet (recto); Head of a Woman (verso)
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Artist's working dates 1778–1832
Medium: Black chalk with stumping, heightened with white chalk (recto and verso) on buff laid paper
Inscriptions: In graphite, lower left, signed "Desoria."; in graphite across bottom ledge "croqui du portrait de Constance P. . . Princesse De"
Dimensions: 16.5 × 12.9 cm (6 1/2 × 5 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: As a gift from Mr. & Mrs. Carl Weinhardt in memory of Edna Hart Hubon
Reference Number: 1960.855
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“Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago,” (Chicago, 1976), p. 31 (recto).
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the 18th Century (Chicago, 1977), no. 1D7 (recto).

Northampton, Mass., Smith College Museum of Art, “The French Portrait: Revolution to Restoration,” September 30-December 11, 2005, p. 66, cat. 13 (ill.) (recto).

Given by Mr. and Mrs. Carl Weinhardt to the Art Institute, 1960.

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