Head of a Child (Emmanuel)

Prints and Drawings

1898

Charles Angrand
French, 1854–1926

The typical relationship between light and dark is reversed in this drawing. A bright, crawling infant, leaning its weight on its forearms, seems to emerge from the shadows. This technique, wherein individual marks give way to a broader, atmospheric effect, was indebted to Georges Seurat, whom Angrand knew well. Although he made his name in Paris, after the death of his father Angrand retreated to his hometown of Saint-Laurent-en-Caux to care for his mother in 1896. This work comes from that period. Angrand explained that in his drawings, “animals, objects, and people … appear in simple shapes, summarizing the observer’s [own] feelings.”

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Charles Angrand
Title: Head of a Child (Emmanuel)
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.: Made 1898
Medium: Black Conté crayon on ivory laid paper, ruled in blue pencil at edges
Inscriptions: Signed and dated lower left, in black conté crayon: "CHARLES ANGRAND 98"; marked with cipher upper left and inscribed across the bottom (by an absence of media): "EMMANUEL"
Dimensions: 62.5 × 47.8 cm (24 5/8 × 18 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.891
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Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 115, cat. 78 (ill.).

Paris, Grand Palais, Société des Artistes Indépendants, “Les Indépendants à la Belle Epoque 1895–1901,” Mar.–Apr.1966 (ill.)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 115, cat. 78 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” March 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.

Pierre Angrand, to at least 1966. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, March 28, 1973, lot 103, to Ian Woodner; by descent to his daughters, Dian and Andrea Woodner; sold, Christie’s, New York, May 13, 1993, lot 102, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

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