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Three Figures
Pierre-Jacques Volaire (French, 1729–1802)
18th century
- Medium
- black and white chalk on blue-gray prepared paper
- Classification
- Drawing
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 26.3 x 21 cm (10 3/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Volaire’s sketch of two women with a child is an example of the numerous figure studies he executed on blue-gray prepared paper with black and white chalk. This drawing likely did not relate to a later painting, but instead seems to have been produced as a visual record of the artist’s creative experimentation.
