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Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée

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Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée
1724-1805
Seated Female Nude, Looking to the Right. Verso: Female nude
Black chalk, with white chalk, on paper; verso: black chalk.
14 13/16 x 11 3/8 inches (375 x 294 mm)
Purchased as the gift of Catherine Mellon Conover.
1984.45
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Watermark: none.

Inscription: 

Inscribed at lower right on verso, "Lagrenee [illegible]".

Provenance: 
Peter Rowlands, London.
Associated names: 

Rowlands, Peter, former owner.
Conover, Catherine Mellon, donor.

Bibliography: 

Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 355.

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Lagrenée, Louis-Jean-François
School: 
French
Century: 
18th century
Classification: 
Drawing
Department: 
Drawings and Prints