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Portrait drawing

Madame Louis Antoine van Loon-Tachard, née Adèle Françoise Tachard 1901

Head only in profile to the right, her hair swept up into a loose bun

Red chalk with white heightening on paper, 36 x 48 cm (14 ¼ x 19 in.)

Inscribed lower right: László FE / La foret 

Sitters’ Book I, opp. f. 53: Adèle van Loon La Forêt 8 Aug 1901

Private Collection

This portrait drawing was executed at the van Loon family home in ‘La Forêt’ in 1901, while de László was on commission to paint a formal, three-quarter-length oil painting of the sitter [7409].

For biographical notes on the sitter, see [7409].

EXHIBITED:            

•Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam De László in Holland, Dutch Masterpieces by Philip Alexius de László (1869-1937), 3 March-5 June 2006, no. 2

LITERATURE:          

•Grever, Tonko and Annemieke Heuft (Sandra de Laszlo, British ed.), De László in Holland: Dutch Masterpieces by Philip Alexius de László (1869-1937), Paul Holberton publishing, London, 2006, pp. 8, 31, 33, 35, ill. no. 2

CWS 2008