Study of a Seated Woman Seen from Behind (Marie-Gabrielle Capet), Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
Original is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A beautiful drawing by the 18th century French painter, and a wonderful example of the expressive possibilities for creating naturalistic portraits and figures in the “trois crayon” method of using three chalks — red, black and white — on toned paper.
Beautiful!
Amazing skin tones, and the fabric! Such skill with the medium.
Ridiculously gorgeous
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard or also known as Adélaïde Labille-Guiard des Vertus was later also known as Madame Vincent (remarried to François-André Vincent). Marie-Gabrielle Capet was her pupil and model, who nursed her after she fell ill, to the end in 1803.
Really beautiful! Red, black and white on toned paper.
Thank you.
