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Vertical drawing of two women standing and a man at a piano forte in a high ceiling room.

The man at the piano on the right leans into the woman in the center, his face caresses her hand that’s delicately touching the piano. She faces us, yet her eyes look to the right with eyebrows raised and slight smile. The second woman on the left has her back to us, she’s reading a long, curled sheet of music, her head turned slightly left. Both women wear long eighteenth-century gowns, their hair up in a fancy style. Light enters from the right, beyond the piano, illuminating the romantic gesture. There’s a cello tucked in the shadows behind the piano.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1955.182
People
Jean-Michel Moreau, called Moreau le jeune, French (Paris 1741 - 1814 Paris)
Title
Saint-Preux Kissing the Hand of Julie
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: from "La Nouvelle Heloïse" by Rousseau
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296835

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and brown ink, gray wash, watercolor and touches of white gouache, over traces of graphite, on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in graphite and brown ink
Dimensions
22 x 16.5 cm (8 11/16 x 6 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, graphite: Moreau le jeune

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles E. Dunlap
Accession Year
1955
Object Number
1955.182
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr., "To Delight the Eye": French Drawings and Paintings from the Collection of Charles E. Dunlap, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 2005), no. 23, p. 8

Exhibition History

  • "To Delight the Eye": French Drawings and Paintings from the Collection of Charles E. Dunlap, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/17/2005 - 03/12/2006

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