Pierre Duval Le Camus
French, 1790–1854
The Drawing Lesson
c. 1826
In the corner of a studio, one woman copies a framed image fixed to an easel while another leans forward to offer advice. Women were not permitted to attend state-run art schools in nineteenth-century France but often took private lessons. In fact, Duval Le Camus ran a studio that taught women to draw by copying, as the student with the drawing board is doing here.
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 12 15/16 x 9 3/4 in. (32.8 x 24.7 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.728 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | On View |
Image Caption
Pierre Duval Le Camus, The Drawing Lesson, c. 1826, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.728
Select Bibliography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Five, Supplement: South Gallery. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1959.
Cunningham, Charles C., et al. The Elegant Academics: Chroniclers of 19th-Century Parisian Life. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: The Clark, 1974.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.. In the Studio: The Making of Art in 19th-Century France, Sept. 12-Oct. 25, 1981. Cat. by David B. Cass.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984.
Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992.
Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
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Provenance
[Vicars Brothers, London]; [Knoedler, London, sold to Clark, 31 July 1939, as The Drawing Lesson]; Robert Sterling Clark (1939–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.
