Two Hands of a Woman Writing with a Quill
Artist: Unknown Artist (French, -)
Medium: black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 10 7/16 in. x 9 1/8 in. (26.5 cm. x 23.1 cm.)
Credit Line: Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III
Accession Number: 1811.122
- James Bowdoin III( Collector, Boston) - 1811.
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art( Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811- . Bequest
- Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art. ( 5/17/1985 - 7/7/1985)
- Clark Art Institute. ( 9/14/1985 - 10/27/1985)
- University of Kansas. ( 1/19/1986 - 3/2/1986)
- Art Gallery of Ontario. ( 5/17/1986 - 6/29/1986)
Di Pietro placed this sheet in the seventeenth century; Mather placed it later. Pierre Rosenberg tentatively suggested François Lemoyne (1688-1737) as the artist. By the same hand as BCMA 1811.77 and BCMA 1811.125. This group may be by an Italian artist.
Commentary credited to David P. Becker (or not otherwise captioned) appeared in his catalogue Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College (Brunswick: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1985).