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Drawing, Study for the Sculpture "Autumn" for the Château de Wideville, after 1632

This is a Drawing. It was created by Jacques Sarazin. It is dated after 1632 and 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. It is credited Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.

Wall brackets with head of Bacchus. Bearded laughing mask among scrolls and vintage motifs supports a shaped shelf moulded with a bound laurel fillet.

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

Our curators have highlighted 8 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:

Scene of the interior of a house. At left a group of women are making fritters over an open fire. At center a table is being set. At right beyond a bed frame, a woman stands before a mirror. Image enclosed in engraved frame

Print, Winter from the Series, The Four Seasons, 1635
etching on off-white laid paper.
Gift of Mrs. Henry B. du Pont.
1951-126-11

Hexagonal in plan, slight engraved decoration on foot; belly plain, shaped neck straight; hexagonal domed cover, crowned with putto on cask, extending upward to cover lip; handle in form of acanthus tendril, forked and double looped; ewer covered with framework of trellises, vines and putti in various wine-making activities.

Vintage Jug, 1854–55
raised, cast, and applied gilt silver.
Gift of Louise B. Scott.
1936-21-1

Three vertical panels depicting the months of April, June and October, in reverse from the engraved designs for tapestries."April" shows the bull in a wreath medallion at top, with Venus and Cupid in a frame at the center of the drawing. Below the frame is a swan between billing pairs of doves, all resting on a pedestal supported by dolphins. In "June", Cancer is omitted. Mercury is placed in the central framing structure surmounted by a cock. A ram is below. "October" shows Scorpio in a wreath at top, Minerva in the central frame, and Arachne(?) making a tapestry below.

Drawing, Designs for Gobelins Tapestry, April (Les Mois Grotesques par...
red chalk, pen and brown ink on cream laid paper.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1911-28-1-1

Its dimensions are

17.7 x 7.2 cm (6 15/16 x 2 13/16 in.) Mat: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.) Frame H x W x D: 39.7 x 50.2 x 2.5 cm (15 5/8 in. x 19 3/4 in. x 1 in.)

It is signed

Signed in pen and brown ink, lower left: Sarrasin.

It is inscribed

Inscribed, lower right corner verso: JR.

Cite this object as

Drawing, Study for the Sculpture "Autumn" for the Château de Wideville, after 1632; Jacques Sarazin (French, 1592–1660); France; recto: red chalk on white laid paper; verso: black chalk, graphite; 17.7 x 7.2 cm (6 15/16 x 2 13/16 in.) Mat: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.) Frame H x W x D: 39.7 x 50.2 x 2.5 cm (15 5/8 in. x 19 3/4 in. x 1 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 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