FJK 117
Subleyras Pierre-Hubert (French, Saint-Gilles-du-Gard 1699–1749 Rome)
Study of a Maid Holding a Dish
1735-1737
9 61/64 × 7 3/4 in. (253 × 197 mm)
Medium
Charcoal with white highlights on grey-brown paper laid down on card-board
Old inscription in brown ink bottom right: Subleyras fecit
Inscription in pencil bottom left: spt. 25
Late inscription on card-board support: Etude d’une figure de son / tableau du repas du pharisien
Origin
Private Collection, Great Britain
Sale, Christie’s, London, April 16, 1991, no. 221
Jan Krugier Collection, JK 5093
Jan Krugier Foundation
Exhibitions
Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Linie, Licht und Schatten. Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 1999, p. 106, no. 46, color ill. p. 107.
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, 1999, p. 130, no. 58, color ill. p. 131.
Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, p. 170, no. 69, color ill. p. 171.
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Passion du dessin. Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2002, p. 148, no. 62, color ill. p. 149.
Notes
This drawing is a preparatory study for the maid holding a silver dish, seen from left side, represented in The Banquet in the House of Simon the Pharisee, a painting commissioned by the Order of Saint John Lateran for the refectory of their monastery at Asti, near Turin. The work painted in 1737 is now at the Louvre Museum (P. Rosenberg, Subleyras, Paris, 1987, no. 33).
This study is related to two other drawings at the Louvre Museum: the first one was formerly in the Comte d’Orsay Collection (no. 32964) and the second one in the Saint-Morys Collection (no. 32919); the latter carries a similar inscription (P. Rosenberg, Subleyras, Paris, 1987, nos. 40-41).
Anonymous author (translated from French)
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