LOUIS-ROLAND TRINQUESSE (PARIS 1746-1800)

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).