L'Invite (1775): Art, History and Details

L'Invite (1775) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Louis Rolland Trinquesse (French, c. 1746–c. 1800).

The work and its context

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

Although Trinquesse painted in oil, he is best known today for the series of red chalk drawings of full-length female figures in domestic settings to which this sheet belongs. These works fall somewhere between portraiture and genre scenes (scenes of everyday life) and focus on nuances of pose, gesture, and expression. The traditional title of this work suggests the woman is making a flirtatious overture to an unseen male companion.

Object facts

• Title: L'Invite
• Date: 1775
• Creator attribution: Louis Rolland Trinquesse (French, c. 1746–c. 1800)
• Culture: France
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: Sanguine on white woven paper
• Dimensions: Sheet: 36 x 24.5 cm (14 3/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
• Collection: DR - French
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 2008.364

Collection credit

Bequest of Muriel Butkin

Further reading listed by the museum

• Grasse (France). Musée Fragonard, and Alexandre Ananoff. Femmes: Dessins De Maitres Et Petits Maitres Du Xviiie Siècle, 28 Juillet - 16 Septembre 1962. Grasse, 1962.
• Musée Des Beaux-arts De Dijon, and Monique Geiger. Trois Peintres Bourguignons Du Xviiie Siècle: Colson, Vestier, Trinquesse. Dijon: Musée Des Beaux-arts De Dijon, 1969.
• 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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