Portrait of a Young Man (recto); Sketch of a Venus (verso) 1820–23 Attributed to Richard Parkes Bonington This portrait drawing has been attributed to Richard Parkes Bonington and the features, hairstyle and dress suggest that, if by his hand, the sheet may be a self-portrait—those elements are all similar to a self-portrait in oils of 1825 (Collection of Gabriel Renand), and also echo a small chalk drawing by Louis-Léopold Boilly titled "The Students of Baron Gros," 1820 (Musée Carnavalet). Bonington was an important landscape painter who worked both in watercolors and oils, which makes the p
Portrait of a Young Man (recto); Sketch of a Venus (verso) 1820–23 Attributed to Richard Parkes Bonington This portrait drawing has been attributed to Richard Parkes Bonington and the features, hairstyle and dress suggest that, if by his hand, the sheet may be a self-portrait—those elements are all similar to a self-portrait in oils of 1825 (Collection of Gabriel Renand), and also echo a small chalk drawing by Louis-Léopold Boilly titled "The Students of Baron Gros," 1820 (Musée Carnavalet). Bonington was an important landscape painter who worked both in watercolors and oils, which makes the possibility that he drew this sheet Portrait of a Young Man (recto); Sketch of a Venus (verso). Attributed to Richard Parkes Bonington (British, Arnold, Nottinghamshire 1802–1828 London). 1820–23. Black and white chalk on blue-gray paper. Drawings
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