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An Artist Adoring a Statue of Virtue
by Claude Hoin
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, at lower right, in pen and brown ink: "J. B. hoin/1783"; signed and dated, lower center on mount, in pen and black ink: "JB hoin Ptre du Roi, Des Academies de Dijon, Toulouse et Lyon. 1783"
Provenance
Sold, Sotheby’s, New York, Jan. 10, 1995, lot 168, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA., given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Gifts of a Lifetime, Old Master Drawings," Dec. 11, 1998 – Mar. 28, 1999, checklist 45. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 59, cat. 32 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," March 15 - June 15, 2014, no cat.
Publications
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 59, cat. 32 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Claude Hoin / French, 1750-1817
- Date
- 1783
- Medium
- Watercolor and gouache, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 40.8 × 27.7 cm (16 1/8 × 10 15/16 in.); Secondary support: 47.5 × 34 cm (18 3/4 × 13 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- watercolor
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.952
More by Claude Hoin in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00005671
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