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Carefully distributed across a tan sheet of paper, these studies of a male nude for the figure of Hercules were made in preparation for François Lemoyne’s masterpiece, Hercules and Omphale, painted in Rome in 1724. In the myth illustrated by the work, the Classical hero is reluctantly forced by Omphale to submit to spinning wool like a woman. Interweaving the red, black, and white chalks made famous by Antoine Watteau in the prior decade, this drawing heralds the grace and beauty of the French Rococo while reflecting the powerful experience of Michelangelo’s Sistine Ignudi.
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| Medium | paper (fiber product) |
| Dimensions | 32 × 40 Cm |
| Certificate | Certificate not provided |
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Thu
22
Jan
exhibition
Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, " Mar. 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," Mar. 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.
Thu
22
Jan
note
Suzanne Folds McCullagh
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. 53, cat. 26 (ill.).
Thu
22
Jan
exhibition
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. 53, cat. 26 (ill.).
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. 53, cat. 26 (ill.).
Thu
22
Jan
note
Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago,”Master Drawings 38:3
Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago,”Master Drawings 38:3 (Fall 2000), p. 247.
Fri
22
Jan
exhibition
New York, Frick Collection, "Watteau and His World, French Drawing from 1700 to 1750, " 1999, pp. 218–21, cat. 65.
New York, Frick Collection, "Watteau and His World, French Drawing from 1700 to 1750," 1999, pp. 218–21, cat. 65.
Thu
22
Jan
exhibition
Art Institute of Chicago, "Gifts of a Lifetime, " 1998–1999, checklist 26.
Art Institute of Chicago, "Gifts of a Lifetime," 1998–1999, checklist 26.
Thu
22
Jan
note
Max Hevesi, Vienna....
Max Hevesi, Vienna. Sold, Christie’s, New York, Jan. 30, 1998, lot 237, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA., given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
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