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Pierre Lenfant

Study of Hands (recto); Sketch of a Hand (verso)

1700s
red and black chalk heightened with white chalk

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After Pierre Lenfant served as the official battlefield artist to King Louis XV in the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748), he and his family were awarded a lifetime residence at the royal Gobelins Manufactory on the outskirts of Paris. This delicate study in colored chalks may depict a weaver pulling threads in the textile factory.

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