Portrait of a Young Man

Fulchran Jean Harriet

1802 · Black chalk, stumped, heightened with white. Framing line in pen and brown ink. · Drawings and Prints

In the inscription on this drawing of an unknown sitter, dated 1802, Harriet noted his own status as a student at the Académie de France in Rome and pupil of Jacques Louis David. Indeed, he won the 1798 Prix de Rome with "The Battle of the Horatii and the Curiatii," which presents a decidedly Davidian subject. This elegant, highly finished portrait is one of very few surviving drawings by the artist, who died prematurely only a few years after making it, at the age of twenty-seven.

Artist

Fulchran Jean Harriet

Date

1802

Medium

Black chalk, stumped, heightened with white. Framing line in pen and brown ink.

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1984