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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Study of the Head and Hands of an Old Woman Looking Up
    Nicolas Bernard Lépicié. Study of the Head and Hands of an Old Woman Looking Up, c. 1775. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00004467

    Study of the Head and Hands of an Old Woman Looking Up

    by Nicolas Bernard Lépicié

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Sold by P. & D. Colnaghi, London, to the Art Institute, 1986.

    Exhibition history

    London, P.&D. Colnaghi, "Old Master Drawings," July 1-9, 1986, cat. 44.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Nicolas Bernard Lépicié / French, 1735-1784
    Date
    c. 1775
    Medium
    Black chalk, with stumping, heightened with touches of white chalk, on ivory laid paper, prepared with a blue ground, laid down on ivory laid paper
    Dimensions
    21.4 × 18.6 cm (8 7/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    chalk
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Helene Payne Memorial Fund
    Accession no.
    1986.427

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