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Profile of a Woman
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower left, in black chalk: Wicar. 1802 Lower left corner, blue ink stamp: GV (estimated), in oval; lower right corner, red ink stamp: Carlo Prayer, in oval Inscribed verso, right edge, in red chalk: 0.633; lower right corner, in pen and brown ink, 323/2
Provenance
Giuseppe Vallardi (died 1863), Milan [Lugt 1223]. Captain Carlo Prayer (died 1900), Milan [Lugt 2044]. Sold by William Schab Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1987.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Dreams and Echoes: Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection", October 20, 2013 - February 16, 2014, pp. 56-57, 212, cat. 17 (ill.), cat. by Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Melissa Gustin
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean Baptiste Joseph Wicar / French, 1762-1834
- Date
- 1802
- Medium
- Black chalk, on ivory laid writing paper
- Dimensions
- 11.8 × 16.6 cm (4 11/16 × 6 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Julius Lewis Endowment, and Celia and David Hilliard
- Accession no.
- 1987.187
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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