Woman in Profile, Turned to the Left (1784): Art, History and Details

Woman in Profile, Turned to the Left (1784) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Henri-Pierre Danloux (French, 1753–1809).

The work and its context

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

Danloux worked in Lyon from 1783 to 1784, specializing in profile portraits. Based on the date inscribed on the drawing, this unidentified young woman may have been a member of the aristocracy in that city. Danloux combined black lines with stumping—a method of blurring the powdery drawing media with a tightly rolled piece of cloth or leather—to achieve a greater range of textures and tones.

Object facts

• Title: Woman in Profile, Turned to the Left
• Date: 1784
• Creator attribution: Henri-Pierre Danloux (French, 1753–1809)
• Culture: France
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: Charcoal and black chalk with stumping on off-white laid paper, signed in brown ink
• Dimensions: Sheet: 23.7 x 20.7 cm (9 5/16 x 8 1/8 in.); Secondary Support: 30.9 x 28.9 cm (12 3/16 x 11 3/8 in.)
• Collection: DR - French
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 2008.387

Collection credit

Bequest of Muriel Butkin

Further reading listed by the museum

• 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.

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