Study of an Arm [verso]
Guillaume Lethière
c. 1812
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Medium
black chalk on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 45.6 x 59.4 cm (17 15/16 x 23 3/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
William B. O'Neal Fund
Accession Number
1998.100.1.b
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Guillaume Lethière · 1760–1832
**Guillaume Guillon-Lethière (1760–1832)** was a French neoclassical painter born in Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe, to a free woman of color, Marie-Françoise Dupepaye, and Pierre Guillon, a white colonial royal notary. His early life reflected the complexities of colonial society; he and his sister were not legally recognized until 1794. In 1774, at age fourteen, his father brought him to France, where ...