id: 166643 accession number: 2008.363 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.363 updated: 2024-03-26 02:01:12.155000 Head of a Female Figure in Profile, Turned to the Right, c. 1763–1770?. Hughes Taraval (French, 1729–1785). Charcoal with red and white chalk and stumping ; sheet: 37.4 x 26.2 cm (14 3/4 x 10 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.363 title: Head of a Female Figure in Profile, Turned to the Right title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1763–1770? creation date earliest: 1758 creation date latest: 1775 current location: creditline: Bequest of Muriel Butkin copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: charcoal with red and white chalk and stumping department: Drawings collection: DR - French type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Hughes Taraval (French, 1729–1785) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 37.4 x 26.2 cm (14 3/4 x 10 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: light gray laid paper (possibly faded from blue), laid down on beige laid paper, framing lines in brown ink watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed, lower right, in charcoal or black chalk: Taraval; verso of secondary support, center, in brown ink: No 2; center, in graphite: 144 [circled]; lower right, in graphite: R + S / 5985; lower right, in graphite: 1240 [underlined] / hu77 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin opening date: 2001-08-26T00:00:00 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Michelangelo Pacetti (Lugt 2057, lower left, in black inka); [Walter Schatzki, New York]; purchased in 1975. date: footnotes: citations: a. Because a touch of red has been added over this mark, it might easily be confused with Lugt 2057 (also a "P"), which appears in red ink. However, the shape of the letter here matches the Pacetti mark, and under magnification the black ink with which it was applied becomes apparent. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 11, p. 32-33 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.363/2008.363_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.363/2008.363_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.363/2008.363_full.tif