Head study of a boy looking up to the right

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PIERRE-NICOLAS BRISSET (PARIS 1810-1890)
Head study of a boy looking up to the right
signed and inscribed ‘à L’ami Manguin/P^re Brisset’ (lower left) and dated ‘Rome/ 1844’ (upper left)
red, black and white chalk on blue paper
10 ¾ x 8 in. (27.1 x 20.3 cm)

Provenance

Given by the artist to a Pierre Manguin (1815-1869), Paris.
Marie-Madeleine Aubrun (1924-1998), Paris; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8-9 February 1999, lot 129.
Anonymous sale; Artcurial, Paris, 3 October 2014, lot 94.
with Stephen Ongpin, London (One Hundred Drawings and Watercolours Dating from the 16th Century to the 21st Century, 2020-2021, no. 67, ill.).

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Lot Essay

This drawing dates from Brisset’s years as a pensionnaire at the French Academy in Rome. The dedicatee must be the architect Pierre Manguin, who built the house of the famed courtesan La Païva on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, on the decoration of which Brisset worked in the 1860s.

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