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Drawing (France)
This is a Drawing. We acquired it in 1931. Its medium is recto: red chalk on white laid paper; verso: black chalk, graphite. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
Sarazin executed this luminous sketch for a garden sculpture in red chalk, a medium that is mined and cut into sticks. Since the 15th century, artists have exploited its color to suggest living flesh. A more finished design would have guided Sarazin’s assistant in translating the drawing to carved stone.
This object was featured in our Object of the Day series in a post titled What Do the French Aristocracy and the Couturier Valentino Garavani Have in Common?.
This object was donated by Eleanor Garnier Hewitt and Sarah Cooper Hewitt.
- Bracket (England), mid-18th century
- carved mahogany.
- Gift of Irwin Untermyer.
- 1949-143-4-a,b
- Square Or Scarf, Grapes, 1947
- silk.
- Gift of Cooper Union Art School.
- 1950-143-5
- Drawing, Cleobolus, ca. 1650
- graphite and red chalk on off-white laid paper.
- Gift of Hugh Cassel.
- 1958-143-6
Our curators have highlighted 8 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Book Illustration, Art Anatomy, Pectoralis Major in Use, 1884
- graphite drawing on paper.
- Collection of Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
- SIL39088006720262
- Vintage Jug, 1854–55
- raised, cast, and applied gilt silver.
- Gift of Louise B. Scott.
- 1936-21-1
- Drawing, Catafalque of the Bolgonese Artist Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665), 1665
- pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, red chalk on off-white laid paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
- 1938-88-2503
Cite this object as
Drawing (France); recto: red chalk on white laid paper; verso: black chalk, graphite; 1931-64-242
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Making Design.
