Studies of Hands

Attributed to Louis Roland Trinquesse, 1770s–1780s

This previously unidentified drawing has recently been attributed to Louis Roland Trinquesse, a French genre and portrait painter whose accomplished red chalk studies were avidly collected in his lifetime. · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: Attributed to Louis Roland Trinquesse ¹
Date: 1770s–1780s ¹
Medium: Red chalk on white laid paper ¹
Original: 1,834 × 2,583 px ¹
License: Public domain (Minneapolis Institute of Art)
Credit: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Gift of David M. Daniels

Object record, Minneapolis Institute of Art

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