Head of a Young Girl Turning toward the Right (1758?): Art, History and Details

Head of a Young Girl Turning toward the Right (1758?) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is François Hubert Drouais (French, 1727–1775).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Although once attributed to the painter Louis Tocqué (1696-1772), this beautiful drawing of a young girl is closer to the work of another important portraitist of the 1700s, François-Hubert Drouais. The inscription at the lower left identifies the girl as a certain Marie-Thérèse, but this writing was probably added later, and we have no way of knowing for certain who she is.

Object facts

• Title: Head of a Young Girl Turning toward the Right
• Date: 1758?
• Creator attribution: François Hubert Drouais (French, 1727–1775)
• Culture: France
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: black chalk, with stumping
• Dimensions: Sheet: 29.6 x 25 cm (11 5/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
• Collection: DR - French
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 2008.397

Collection credit

Bequest of Muriel Butkin

Further reading listed by the museum

• Vassar College. Centennial Loan Exhibition; Drawings & Watercolors from Alumnae and Their Families, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York [May 19-June 11, 1961. 1961.
• Sutton, Denys. France in the Eighteenth Century. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1968.
• Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.

View the collection record

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