{"id":1714,"date":"2016-12-21T12:11:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T12:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tavolozzafoundation.com\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2017-01-17T10:24:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T10:24:27","slug":"friant-ii-french-portrait-drawings-clouet-colbert-british-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tavolozzafoundation.com\/blog\/friant-ii-french-portrait-drawings-clouet-colbert-british-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Friant II &#8211; French Portrait Drawings from Clouet to Colbert at the British Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British Museum exhibition \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishmuseum.org\/whats_on\/exhibitions\/french_portrait_drawings.aspx\">French Portrait Drawings from Clouet to Colbert<\/a>\u2019 contains more than 65 portraits by French artists, many of them not previously exhibited. The selection of drawings yet again demonstrates the incredible quality of the Print Room\u2019s holdings.\u00a0 Curated by Sarah Vowles, it illustrates the development of French portrait drawing from the Renaissance until the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century and runs until 29 January 2017.<\/p>\n<p>I was so pleased to see a drawing by \u00c9mile Friant after having familiarised myself with his work at the exhibition on the artist in Nancy discussed in the previous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tavolozzafoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/\u00c9mile-Friant-Le-dernier-naturaliste-2.pdf\">post<\/a>. The drawing in the British Museum was believed to be a self-portrait but the subject is clearly not the man in Friant\u2019s self-portraits, including the example from the Katrin Bellinger Collection currently on view in Nancy. \u00a0It is perhaps of a friend or patron, who is shown leaning sideways looking at a painting. While the head is beautifully drawn and finished, typical of the artist\u2019s style, the remainder of the drawing is only lightly sketched in.<\/p>\n<p>Another work from the Collection now on view in Nancy, \u2018Coin d\u2019atelier,\u2019 shows a woman posing for Friant in the studio. The painter is not represented but his presence is suggested by his tools on the table\u2019.<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>\u00a0 During the preparation for the exhibition Mich\u00e8le Leinen, a researcher at the Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, identified the model as Gaby, who appears to have been one of Friant\u2019s favourite models of that time, despite evidence from personal correspondence that she was not the most reliable. Friant wrote in 1920 that: \u2018one has to be rather crazy in order to be willing to start any important project with her right now\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Among the advantages of lending works to an exhibition are the insights that further research brings to light on works in the Collection. \u2018\u00c9mile Friant, le dernier naturaliste?\u2019 \u00a0is on view at the <a href=\"http:\/\/mban.nancy.fr\/fr\/accueil\/actualites\/detail-actualite.html?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=158&amp;cHash=c1cf0645db17e8e6d2b7824a96a6e68e\">Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts de Nancy<\/a> until February 2017.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Mouriel Mantopoulos, \u2018Coin d\u2019atelier, no.51-d\u2019, in <em>\u00c9mile Friant. <\/em><em>Le dernier naturaliste<\/em>?, p.113.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Museum exhibition \u2018French Portrait Drawings from Clouet to Colbert\u2019 contains more than 65 portraits by French artists, many of them not previously exhibited. 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