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*Theodore Chasseriau (1819-1856) two young women playing with a child in a landscape Signed and dated: 1841. Pencil. 178 by 206mm. Provenance: Admiral Duperre, given to him by the artist; Dompierre d'Hormoy, 1931; sale, Paris, 9 June 1964, lot 1; Otto Wertheimer, Paris. Literature: L. Benedite, Theodore Chasseriau, sa vie et son oeuvre, Paris 1932, vol.1, illus. p.56; M. Sandoz, Portraits et visages dessines par Theodore Chasseriau, Cahiers Theodore Chasseriau II, Paris 1986, p.146, cat.144 illus.; L.-A. Prat, Theodore Chasseriau, Cahiers du dessins francais, no.5, Paris 1988, p.18, cat.80. This drawing may be compared to two others showing one or two young women with a baby, executed circa 1840 (see Prat, op.cit., cats.38 and 58). Chasseriau undoubtedly had this

*Theodore Chasseriau (1819-1856)
two young women playing with a child in a landscape
Signed and dated: 1841.
Pencil.
178 by 206mm.
Provenance: Admiral Duperre, given to him by the artist; Dompierre d'Hormoy, 1931; sale, Paris, 9 June 1964, lot 1; Otto Wertheimer, Paris. Literature: L. Benedite, Theodore Chasseriau, sa vie et son oeuvre, Paris 1932, vol.1, illus. p.56; M. Sandoz, Portraits et visages dessines par Theodore Chasseriau, Cahiers Theodore Chasseriau II, Paris 1986, p.146, cat.144 illus.; L.-A. Prat, Theodore Chasseriau, Cahiers du dessins francais, no.5, Paris 1988, p.18, cat.80. This drawing may be compared to two others showing one or two young women with a baby, executed circa 1840 (see Prat, op.cit., cats.38 and 58). Chasseriau undoubtedly had this series of drawings in mind when he painted the famous Groupe des meres, for the decoration of the Cour des Comptes in Paris, which was much admired at the time of its execution but destroyed by fire in 1871. *Theodore Chasseriau (1819-1856)
two young women playing with a child in a landscape
Signed and dated: 1841.
Pencil.
178 by 206mm.
Provenance: Admiral Duperre, given to him by the artist; Dompierre d'Hormoy, 1931; sale, Paris, 9 June 1964, lot 1; Otto Wertheimer, Paris. Literature: L. Benedite, Theodore Chasseriau, sa vie et son oeuvre, Paris 1932, vol.1, illus. p.56; M. Sandoz, Portraits et visages dessines par Theodore Chasseriau, Cahiers Theodore Chasseriau II, Paris 1986, p.146, cat.144 illus.; L.-A. Prat, Theodore Chasseriau, Cahiers du dessins francais, no.5, Paris 1988, p.18, cat.80. This drawing may be compared to two others showing one or two young women with a baby, executed circa 1840 (see Prat, op.cit., cats.38 and 58). Chasseriau undoubtedly had this series of drawings in mind when he painted the famous Groupe des meres, for the decoration of the Cour des Comptes in Paris, which was much admired at the time of its execution but destroyed by fire in 1871.