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Youth Sleeping in a Chair

ca. 1771–72
Not on view
Vincent was trained in the atelier of Joseph Marie Vien and traveled to Rome in 1771 to study at the Académie de France. While a gifted draftsman, he had a mutable style, close in his early years to that of Jean Honoré Fragonard, then shifting more toward Neoclassicism in the 1780s, though he always maintained a natural vigor in his handling of ink and chalk.

This study of a young man asleep in a chair dates to his early years at the French Academy in Rome (1771-75), where, as part of the formal curriculum, the students learned techniques for depicting drapery by making studies after posed models. Vincent here used black and white chalks to convincingly render the fall of light on the heavy drapery of the dozing figure.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Youth Sleeping in a Chair
  • Artist: François André Vincent (French, Paris 1746–1816 Paris)
  • Date: ca. 1771–72
  • Medium: Black chalk, heightened with white on brownish paper
  • Dimensions: 17 3/4 x 13 1/4 in. (45 x 33.6 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1962
  • Object Number: 62.127.2
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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