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A Young Gentleman Leaning on a Chair Seen from Behind

Dumont, Jacques
1701-1781

A Young Gentleman Leaning on a Chair Seen from Behind

12 7/16 x 7 1/8 inches (316 x 182 mm)
Red chalk on paper.
1985.75

Gift of Otto Manley.

Notes
This drawing is a study for the figure on the extreme left of a large portrait group in the Louvre, depicting Louis XV's nurse Mme Mercier, and her family, dated 1731 (see L. Dimier, "Les peintres français du XVIIIe siècle", II, 1930, 236, no. 9, pl. 42).
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at lower left in pen and brown ink, "J Dumont Le Romain".
Watermark: Grapes with hollow stem.
Associated names
Parker, K. T. (Karl Theodore), 1895-1992, former owner.
Manley, Otto, -1989, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 336.
Denison, Cara D. French Master Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1993, no. 50, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department