Affiliation:
1. EWA LAJER-BURCHARTH is William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. She is the author of Necklines: The Art of Jacques-Louis David after the Terror (Yale, 1999), Chardin Material (Sternberg, 2011), and “Paint and Person in Eighteenth Century Art: Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard,” a manuscript in the final stages of preparation.
Abstract
Four female heads—and a phantom of a profile lurking underneath its fully fleshed version in the lower right—emerge from the void of the page. The drawing, Five Studies of a Woman's Head, now in the British Museum, was produced in a single sitting with the model assuming different poses while the artist drew her. He, too, must have changed his position in order to cast a precipitously downward glance at his model's head, as the two radically foreshortened views of it at the top of the page, and three similar, if less abbreviated, ones on another sheet executed during the same posing session, suggest.
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Music,Visual Arts and Performing Arts
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