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L'Invite

L'Invite

1775
(French, c. 1746–c. 1800)
France, 18th century
Sanguine on white woven paper
Sheet: 36 x 24.5 cm (14 3/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.364
Location: not on view

Description

Although Trinquesse painted in oil, he is best known today for the series of red chalk drawings of full-length female figures in domestic settings to which this sheet belongs. These works fall somewhere between portraiture and genre scenes (scenes of everyday life) and focus on nuances of pose, gesture, and expression. The traditional title of this work suggests the woman is making a flirtatious overture to an unseen male companion.
  • Galerie Cailleux, Paris; sold to Alexandre Ananoff, Paris, in 1969 (according to Cailleux archives; Ananoff stamp, lower right, in black ink); [Schaeffer Galleries, New York]; purchased in 1973.
  • Grasse (France). Musée Fragonard, and Alexandre Ananoff. Femmes: Dessins De Maitres Et Petits Maitres Du Xviiie Siècle, 28 Juillet - 16 Septembre 1962. Grasse, 1962. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 59, p. 40
    Musée Des Beaux-arts De Dijon, and Monique Geiger. Trois Peintres Bourguignons Du Xviiie Siècle: Colson, Vestier, Trinquesse. Dijon: Musée Des Beaux-arts De Dijon, 1969. Mentioned: no. 71, p. 49, Reproduced: pl xxiv
    Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 13, p, 36-37
  • French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001); Dahesh Museum of Art (February 19-May 18, 2002).
    Dessins Anciens XVIIe, XVIIIe, XIXe Siècle, M. Knoedler & Cie, Paris (1970), no. 9.
    Trois peintres bourguignons du XVIIIe siècle Colson Vestier Trinquesse, Musée de Dijon, Palais des États de Bourgogne (1969), 49, no. 71, pl. xxiv;
    Alexandre Ananoff, Femmes Dessins de maîtres et petits maîtres du XVIIIe siècle, Musée Fragonard, Grasse (1962), 40, no. 59, repr.;
  • {{cite web|title=L'Invite|url=false|author=Louis Rolland Trinquesse|year=1775|access-date=20 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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