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Maker(s):David, Jacques-Louis
Culture:French (1748 - 1825)
Title:Two Women
Date Made:1775-1780
Type:Drawing
Materials:Pen and brown (iron gall) ink and brush with brown and gray washes, over traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper
Place Made:Italy; Lazio: Rome
Measurements:sight: 5 1/2 x 7 5/8 in.; 13.97 x 19.3675 cm
Narrative Inscription:  signed in ink at lower right: David / roma
Accession Number:  SC 1952.110
Credit Line:Purchased
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
a woman in long robes standing near a bench on which another woman sits with one knee up and head down contemplating a burning brazier

Label Text:
Label text for ARH 240 French and Italian Drawings Renaissance through Romanticism, written by Suzanne Folds McCullagh, class of 1973, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago:

Considered the most important painter of the Neoclassical movement in Revolutionary France, Jacques-Louis David was a prolific draftsman. He drew from the model throughout his life and utilized countless study drawings to prepare his ambitious paintings. This drawing of two women crying most likely shows his invention of antique figures in classical garb. It is not related to a known work nor does it derive from a known album.

Tags:
women; costume

Subjects:
Costume

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