Lot Essay
Related to Legros's etching of the same subject.
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OLD MASTER & 19TH CENTURY DRAWINGS FROM THE COLLECTION OF JERROLD AND JACKIE ZIFF (LOTS 983-1062)
Alphonse Legros (Dijon 1837-1911 Watford)
Le Joueur de Viole
Details
Alphonse Legros (Dijon 1837-1911 Watford)
Le Joueur de Viole
signed and inscribed on the mount 'a mon ami Holloway A. Legros'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash, heightened with white on grey-green prepared paper
8 3/8 x 8¾ in. (214 x 221 mm.)
Le Joueur de Viole
signed and inscribed on the mount 'a mon ami Holloway A. Legros'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash, heightened with white on grey-green prepared paper
8 3/8 x 8¾ in. (214 x 221 mm.)
Provenance
Marseille Holloway.
Frank E. Bliss, Esq.; Christie's, 9 February 1923, lot 41, (£31.10s to Gooden and Fox).
with the Fine Art Society, London, where acquired by the current owner, 1987.
Frank E. Bliss, Esq.; Christie's, 9 February 1923, lot 41, (£31.10s to Gooden and Fox).
with the Fine Art Society, London, where acquired by the current owner, 1987.
Exhibited
London, Grosvenor Galleries, A Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Etchings and Lithographs by Professor Alphonse Legros (1837-1911) in the Collection of Frank E. Bliss, 1922, pl. 38.
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