# Three Figures

- By: Pierre-Jacques Volaire (French, 1729–1802)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.48)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/2018.48/2018.48_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.