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[Young Women. A series of 16 original drawings].
Undated, 1819.
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[Young Women. A series of 16 original drawings].
Undated, 1819.
16 fine vignette drawings (approx. 8 x 13 cm) on sheets in 12mo format (the paper is discoloured around the drawings, which are probably unmounted).
Bellier de la Chavignerie, Vol. 2 (1882)
Pen-and-ink line drawings and washes in black ink, with highlights in white gouache, signed and dated in ink.
Genre scenes or moral scenes bridging Neoclassicism and Romanticism, with titles and descriptions or dialogue, these delicate drawings are studies of the figures from J.N. Bouilly’s work,
Les Jeunes Femmes, published in 1819, created by Charles-Abraham Chasselat (1782–1843), a French painter and engraver of the early 19th century and winner of the 2nd Prix de Rome in 1804.