LOUIS-ROLAND TRINQUESSE (PARIS 1746-1800)
Lot 76

LOUIS-ROLAND TRINQUESSE (PARIS 1746-1800)

A young woman, seated on a chair and looking up to the right

Fermé4 July 2023

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LOUIS-ROLAND TRINQUESSE (PARIS 1746-1800)
A young woman, seated on a chair and looking up to the right

red chalk, pen and brown ink framing lines
33.8 x 22.3 cm (13 1/4 x 8 3/4 in.)

with Galerie Cailleux, Paris.
Douglas Huntly Gordon (1903-1986), Baltimore, U.S.A. (L. 1130a).
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 30 January 1997, lot 187; where acquired by the present owners.

Note du spécialiste

Comparable red chalk studies of women sitting pensively or reclining elegantly are in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. WA1936.221) and the Morgan Library and Museum, New York (inv. 1990.16; see C. Denison, Fantasy and Reality. Drawings from the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Collection, exhib. cat., New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1995, no. 2, ill.). Trinquesse usually worked from three main models - Marianna Franmery, Louise-Charlotte Marini, Louise-Elizabeth Bain - although their facial features and fashionable clothes are so similar that they are difficult to identify individually as in the present study. Jean Cailleux, who identified three of the sitters, could not reach a conclusion as to the purpose of these sheets nor the existing relationship between the model and the sitters (op. cit., pp. ii-xiv).