Drawing, Study for the Sculpture "Autumn" for the Château de Wideville

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Drawing, Study for the Sculpture "Autumn" for the Château de Wideville

This is a Drawing. It was created by Jacques Sarazin. 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 Week 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.

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Bracket (England), mid-18th century
carved mahogany.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer.
1949-143-4-a,b

Square yellow silk scarf with abstracted clusters of grapes outlined in black and filled with red dots. Background of black lines forming a graph with a dot in the center of each square. A solid red border is flanked by guard borders of thin red and black wavy lines and dots.

Square Or Scarf, Grapes, 1947
silk.
Gift of Cooper Union Art School.
1950-143-5

A male figure, seen standing frontally, dressed in oriental costume, rests his left hand on a baton around which a snake is coiled. In the background, four figures are grouped around an altar. Undecipherable inscriptions in ink, lower left, and signature of the artist in ink, lower right.

Drawing, Cleobolus, ca. 1650
graphite and red chalk on off-white laid paper .
Gift of Hugh Cassel.
1958-143-6

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red chalk on cream laid paper, lined.
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1921-22-196

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linen.
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Paskow.
1982-9-1

Cite this object as

Drawing, Study for the Sculpture "Autumn" for the Château de Wideville; Jacques Sarazin (French, 1592–1660); 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.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2BVLP/
Accession Number 1931-64-242
Object ID 18326307