Jean-Baptiste Deshays de Coleville (1729-1765)

A man pulling a cloth, with a subsidiary study of his head

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Jean-Baptiste Deshays de Coleville (1729-1765)
Deshays, J.-B.
A man pulling a cloth, with a subsidiary study of his head
black and white chalk on light brown paper, watermark fleur-de-lys.
20.5/8 x 14 in. (524 x 360 mm.)

Lot Essay

Alastair Laing has kindly confirmed the attribution. The drawing is comparable in handling to one sold at Phillips, 6 December 1995, lot 223. Further academies by Deshays are illustrated in M. Sandoz, Jean-Baptiste Deshays, 1729-1765, Paris, 1977, figs. 6-10.