Study for a Herm

Prints and Drawings

1674/78

Charles Le Brun
French, 1619–1690

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Charles Le Brun
Title: Study for a Herm
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 1674–1678
Medium: Black chalk, heightened with touches of white chalk and traces of graphite, on tan laid paper, laid down on tan laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower left, in black chalk: "FRAGONARD"
Dimensions: 32.2 × 18 cm (12 11/16 × 7 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
Reference Number: 2022.80
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Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 20, 2011, cat. 46 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection, Jan. 25–Oct. 12, 2020; traveled to New York, Morgan Library and Museum, Feb. 19–June 6, 2021 and Berkeley, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Aug. 4–Nov. 28, 2021.

Sold, Christie’s, New York, Jan. 28, 2000, lot 49, to Richard and Mary L. Gray and the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago (promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.

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