André-Charles Voillemot (1822-1893)

Three studies of female nudes

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André-Charles Voillemot (1822-1893)
Three studies of female nudes
signed 'Voillemot'
black chalk on grey blue paper
470 x 304 mm., 422 x 300 mm. and 414 x 289 mm.; and sixty-two drawings by or attributed to F.-E. Ricois, E.-M.-G. Dubufe, F. Piet, J. Nocquis, C. de Chatillon, P.-G. Jeanniot, H. van Assche and other French and English 19th Century hands (65)

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Voillemot, a pupil of Martin Drolling, first exhibited at the Salon in 1845. Amongst his major commissions were the decoration of the Imperial Pavilion at the Exposition Universelle of 1867 and of the theatre at Fontainebleau. He was also responsible for the decoration of the Chilean Congress in Santiago.

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