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Three Studies of a Woman and a Study of Her Hand Holding a Fan

(French, 1684–1721)
about 1717
Medium/TechniqueRed, black, and white chalk on cream laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 34.1 x 24.1cm (13 7/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
Framed: 64.8 x 54.3 cm (25 1/2 x 21 3/8 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession number65.2610
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
ProvenanceBy 1778, Peter Adolf Hall (b. 1739 - d. 1793; Lugt 1285), Paris [see note]; November 15-22, 1779, [Hall] sale, Basan, Paris, part of lot 404, sold to Dulac. By the mid-19th century, Andrew James (b. 1792/1794 - d. 1854), London; by inheritance to his daughter, Sarah Ann James, London; June 22, 1891, Miss James sale, Christie, Manson, and Woods, London, lot 328, sold to Bourgeois (dealer). Camille Groult (b. 1832 - d. 1908), Paris; to his son, Jean Groult (b. 1868 - d. 1951); to his son, Pierre Bordeaux-Groult (b. 1916 - d. 2007). March 25, 1948, sold by Wildenstein and Co., New York, to Forsyth Wickes (b. 1876 - d. 1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)

NOTE: See Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey, "Lugt 1285: From Gabriel Huquier to Peter Adolf Hall," Master Drawings 2017, pp. 485-497, 517-518.
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