Study of Two Women, ca. 1755, Black chalk, heightened with white, on gray paper, 8 7/16 x 13 3/8 in. ( x 34 cm), Drawings

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Study of Two Women, ca. 1755, Black chalk, heightened with white, on gray paper, 8 7/16 x 13 3/8 in. ( x 34 cm), Drawings, Étienne Jeaurat (French, Vermenton 1699–1789 Versailles), Jeaurat belonged to a literary society interested in social life outside aristocratic circles (the Société du Bout du Banc) and painted unidealized genre scenes of the working classes. This drawing is a study for his painting The Painter’s Move (Le déménagement du peintre, ca

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