Portrait of Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716–1791)

Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger · 1741

What you practise here

Pencil/sanguine portrait: likeness and facial chiaroscuro

Start from the skull as a ball, place the brow line and the centre line, then check the thirds of the face before any detail. Compare angles, not features.

Public-domain artwork from a museum collection, reproduced for study. 100% real art — 0% AI.

Other artworks to study

Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson (1716–1806) with a Dog Study of Eleven Heads Portrait of a Young Man Study of Two Heads Bust of a Youth Looking to Upper Left (recto); Study of Drapery (verso) Self Portrait