拍品 117
  • 117

Théodore Chassériau

估價
14,000 - 18,000 USD
招標截止

描述

  • Théodore Chassériau
  • A study of two men on horseback
  • Pencil

來源

Dr Lucien Graux,
his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 4 June 1957,  part of lot 1 (L'Album de Delphine de Girardin)

出版

L.-A. Prat, Théodore Chassériau 1819-1856, Dessins conservés en dehors du LouvreCahiers du Dessin Français - No. 5, Galerie de Bayser, Paris, no. 110, reproduced
Idem, Inventaire Général des Dessins École Française:  Dessins de Théodore Chassériau 1819-1856, vol. II, Paris 1988, p. 913, under no. 2249, Fo 8R

Condition

Window mounted. In very good condition. A few tiny brown stains, two located at the lower margin and one lower left just in line with the horse's leg. Otherwise fine.
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拍品資料及來源

The present drawing of two nude cavaliers is a preparatory study for Chasseriau's Return from the War, one of a series of paintings that he executed in 1844 for the Grand Staircase at the Cour des Comptes in the palace on the Quai d'Orsay, Paris.  Due to a fire in the palace in 1871, many of these paintings were destroyed, though some survive and are now in the Louvre.  For comparable preparatory drawings for this series see L.A. Prat, op. cit. 1988, p. 913.