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Woman with Hands Crossed

Woman with Hands Crossed

(French, 1684–1721)
1717
Medium/TechniqueRed and black chalk on tan paper
DimensionsFramed: 45.1 x 36.8 x 5.1 cm (17 3/4 x 14 1/2 x 2 in.)
Overall: 21.4 x 14.1cm (8 7/16 x 5 9/16in.)
Credit LineBequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession number65.2611
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
ProvenanceBy 1900 until at least 1913, John Postle Heseltine (b. 1848 - d. 1929), London (Lugt 1507). By 1928, David David-Weill (b. 1871 - d. 1952), Paris and Neuilly-sur-Seine, France [see note 1]; 1937, sold by David-Weill to Wildenstein and Co., New York [see note 2]. December 15, 1944, sold by Jacques Helft and Co., New York, to Forsyth Wickes (b. 1876 - d. 1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accesion Date: December 24, 1965)

NOTES:
[1] Gabriel Henriot, Collection David-Weill, vol. 3, Dessins (1928), p. 501. [2] "Sale of the David-Weill Collection," Art News, February 27, 1937, pp. 12, 20. Wildenstein lent the drawing to the Golden Gate International Exposition (Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1940), cat. no. 504.