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Study for a Herm
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower left, in black chalk: "FRAGONARD"
Provenance
Sold, Christie's, New York, Jan. 28, 2000, lot 49, to Richard and Mary L. Gray and the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago (promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 20, 2011, cat. 46 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection, Jan. 25–Oct. 12, 2020; traveled to New York, Morgan Library and Museum, Feb. 19–June 6, 2021 and Berkeley, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Aug. 4–Nov. 28, 2021.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Charles Le Brun / French, 1619–1690
- Date
- 1674/78
- Medium
- Black chalk, heightened with touches of white chalk and traces of graphite, on tan laid paper, laid down on tan laid paper
- Dimensions
- 32.2 × 18 cm (12 11/16 × 7 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2022.80
More by Charles Le Brun 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-00006037
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