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"did_you_know": "Caillebotte and the subject of this drawing, his friend Eug\u00e8ne Lamy, shared a love of yachting and the artist\u2019s suburban home was located near a popular club in Argenteuil.",
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"conservation_statement": "In this black chalk drawing Caillebotte captured his friend\u2019s physique and posture with a high degree of naturalism and finesse. He used broad gestural marks to outline and shade and expertly describe the subject\u2019s movement, form, and attitude. A range of expressive hatch lines, return strokes, and scribbles pull the figure\u2019s clothing more snugly across the back of his body and create tugs in his pant leg to convey the hands-in-pocket gesture. This sensitive observation and nuanced handling of materials also describes the figure\u2019s hyperextended legs. Yet for all its exactitude, the gist of this drawing style is ease of execution and unconcern for perfection, a nonchalance that is reinforced by small passages of incidental smudging that read as part of the drawing process. Vestiges of erasing are also seen in the background, where presumably the artist went back in to clean up smudged media residues.
The study just fits from top to bottom on the (more textured) wire side of a half sheet of laid paper. Vigorous chalk applications and reinforced strokes feature prominently, yet flecks of white paper interrupt the black marks throughout in a fine scrim pattern determined by the \u201claid and chain\u201d paper texture. This \u201cpointillist\u201d quality enlivened drawings and made these mid- to late-19th-century laid papers highly desirable for working in dry, powdery (black) chalk. The paper\u2019s orientation places the laid lines in a horizontal direction, a direction that some artists favored for most effectively trapping the dry black media and accentuating the fine ribbed laid texture. More subtle are the (white) widely spaced chain lines which provide plumb lines that firmly center the figure on a vertical axis.
The paper type is modern laid and a partial watermark MBM, along the top edge, tells us the paper is Arches Ingres MBM developed by the Arches paper mill in 1869. According to the Arches website, the Arches mill did not start making paper on the cylinder mold machine until 1895 which puts this drawing from 1893 on a handmade paper.",
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