DrawingsFrench17th-18th century

Seated Woman Holding a Shield and a Staff with Subsidiary Study of a Leg; verso: Legs of a Standing Figure

17th-18th century

Artists

Henri-Antoine de FavanneArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black and white chalk on tan antique laid paper; verso: black chalk

Culture

French

Century

17th-18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

27.4 x 36 cm (10 13/16 x 14 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Sale, Monaco, Christie's, 30 June 1995, lot 52, sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, inv. no. D-F-98, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1999, 1999.17

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