Woman in Profile, Turned to the Left
Medium
Charcoal and black chalk with stumping on off-white laid paper, signed in brown ink
Dimensions
sheet: 23.7 × 20.7 cm · secondary support: 30.9 × 28.9 cm
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of Muriel Butkin
Accession Number
2008.387
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
male
About this artwork
Danloux worked in Lyon from 1783 to 1784, specializing in profile portraits. Based on the date inscribed on the drawing, this unidentified young woman may have been a member of the aristocracy in that city. Danloux combined black lines with stumping—a method of blurring the powdery drawing media with a tightly rolled piece of cloth or leather—to achieve a greater range of textures and tones.