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The Love Letter

Claude Hoin

French, 1750–1817

The Love Letter

1760–1817

Medium watercolor, pen and black ink, and black chalk heightened with white on paper
Dimensions Overall: 12 7/8 x 9 11/16 in. (32.7 x 24.6 cm)
Object Number 1955.1883
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

Claude Hoin, The Love Letter, 1760–1817, watercolor, pen and black ink, and black chalk heightened with white on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1883

Select Bibliography

Paris: André Weil.. Claude Hoin.. Nov. 27-Dec. 15, 1934.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Products of the Perfected Civilization: French Life before 1789. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1975. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-one: Drawings of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: 1965. Ludig, Sandra G. Between the Lines: Ladies and Letters at the Clark. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1982. Seymour de Ricci.. Dessins du dix-huitième siècle, Collection Albert Meyer.. Paris: J. A. Seligmann.. 1935.. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.

Provenance

Alice de Rothschild (sale London, Christie, November 24, 1922, no. 11 {as Fragonard}); Albert Meyer, Paris; Robert Sterling Clark.

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