Portrait of a Woman

1874 (?)

Medium	black chalk heightened with white on buff paper
Dimensions	Overall: 7 7/8 x 5 7/8 in. (20 x 15 cm)
Object Number	1955.1878
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Portrait of a Woman, 1874 (?), black chalk heightened with white on buff paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1878

Select Bibliography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty: A Selection of Nineteenth Century French Drawings. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1965. Lovett, Jennifer. A Romance with Realism: The Art of Jean Baptiste Carpeaux. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine CLark Art Institute, 1989. Fichner-Rathus, Lois. Understanding Art. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1986. Fichner-Rathus, Lois. Understanding Art. 3rd edition. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1992. Fichner-Rathus, Lois. Understanding Art. 4th edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1995. Fichner-Rathus, Lois. Understanding Art. 5th edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1997. Rathus, Lois Fichner. Understanding Art, 6th ed.. Fort Worth (TX): Harcourt College Publishers. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.