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Sketchbook with Figure and Landscape Studies

c. 1760–75
(French, 1727–1775)
Overall: 19 x 12.1 cm (7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.)
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The inside cover of François Hubert Drouais’s sketchbook features a label for Au Chant de l’Alouette, the store where the artist purchased his materials.

Description

François Hubert Drouais was known primarily as a portraitist to the court of Louis XV, king of France. This sketchbook belongs to a pair in the museum’s collection that shows a more casual side of the artist’s practice. Its pages feature casual sketches including landscape, close studies of trees, children, and an artist drawing, revealing the subjects that interested the artist in his private hours.
Sketchbook with Figure and Landscape Studies

Sketchbook with Figure and Landscape Studies

c. 1760–75

François Hubert Drouais

(French, 1727–1775)
France, 18th century

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