Camille Roqueplan
1803-1855
Seated Woman Seen from the Back
ca. 1830
11 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches (285 x 222 mm)
Black chalk, with white chalk, on gray paper.
1986.11
Gift of Paul Magriel on the occasion of his eightieth birthday, 12 March 1986.
Notes
Roqueplan is an artist who worked in nearly every genre and is perhaps best known for his role in the Rococo revival of the nineteenth century. Among his most famous works is a canvas in the Wallace Collection, London, "The Lion in Love," 1836, based on one of Jean de la Fontaine's fables. A woman in a velvet skirt, her chemise loose and breast bared, is seated outside trimming the claws of a lion, who is besotted with her. As in the London painting, the figure of a woman seated outdoors with her chemise falling off her shoulder is found repeatedly in Roqueplan's oeuvre. The present drawing shows the model for one of these pictures from behind.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed in black chalk at lower right, "Camille Roqueplan".
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Associated names
Magriel, Paul, 1906-1990, 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. 374.
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