LOT DETAILS

Materials:

black chalk heightened with white chalk, squared in black chalk (recto); black chalk and brown wash, squared in black chalk (verso) on blue paper

Measurements:

8.82 in. (22.40 cm.) (height) by 5.28 in. (13.40 cm.) (width)

Literature:

A.L. Clark et al., Mastery & Elegance, Two Centuries of French drawings from the collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, exhib. cat., Harvard University Art Museums, (and Toronto, Paris, Edinburgh, New York and Los Angeles) 1998-2000, p. 433, no. A.371

Provenance:

The artist's studio,. by inheritance to the artist's student, Antonio Bianchi,. by descent to the Bianchi Family;. with Marcello Aldega and Margot Gordon, Rome/New York, Jean-Baptiste Wicar, Drawings, 1995, no. 76;. where acquired by the present owner in 1995