Guess My Name
Sir David Wilkie
1821
- Medium
- Black and red Conté crayon, with graphite, heightened with white chalk on tan laid paper, laid down
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 10.3 × 18 cm (4 1/16 × 7 1/8 in.); Secondary support: 18 × 25.7 cm (7 1/8 × 10 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- Prints and drawing
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)chalkgraphiteconté crayonprints and drawingchildrenpaper (fiber product)
About
This drawing is a preparatory study for a genre scene commissioned by a German nobleman in 1820 and shown at the Royal Academy in 1821. Executed in the three-chalk technique, the sheet betrays the influence of Rubens’s drawings, which Wilkie could have seen in Paris in 1814. In a subject of the artist’s own devising, a young woman covers a potential suitor’s eyes, but will he identify her correctly?
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