L'Invite by Louis Rolland Trinquesse (French, c. 1746–c. 1800)

Medium

Sanguine on white woven paper

Dimensions

{"sheet":{"height":0.36,"width":0.245}}

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings

Museum

Cleveland Museum of Art

Credit

Bequest of Muriel Butkin

Accession Number

2008.364

Tags

male

About this artwork

Although Trinquesse painted in oil, he is best known today for the series of red chalk drawings of full-length female figures in domestic settings to which this sheet belongs. These works fall somewhere between portraiture and genre scenes (scenes of everyday life) and focus on nuances of pose, gesture, and expression. The traditional title of this work suggests the woman is making a flirtatious overture to an unseen male companion.

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