Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Bust Length Portrait of a Woman

Jens Juel
1745-1802

Bust Length Portrait of a Woman

Sheet: 11 5/8 x 8 1/2 inches (29.5 x 21.6 cm)
Black chalk with white chalk on paper. Verso: Black chalk with white and pink chalk.
2010.48

Bequest of Charles Ryskamp.

Notes
Juel was the foremost Danish portraitist of his day, and was appointed court painter in 1780. During the next forty years, he produced a large number of elegant yet remarkably unidealized portraits of royal, aristocratic, and bourgeois sitters. Clearly drawn from life, this sketch seems to be preparatory for a commissioned painting, though the sitter has not been identified. -- Exhibition Label, from "Life Lines: Portrait Drawings from Dürer to Picasso."
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Coat of arms with crossed swords inside, over "..mopteur", fragment.
Watermark: Countermark: Letters "IGF".
Associated names
Ryskamp, Charles, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department