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BEARDSLEY, Aubrey (1872-1898). A fine portrait drawing in ink of Hyppolyte Taine, c.1893.
Pen and ink on paper (240 x 170mm), a head-and-shoulders three-quarter profile facing left, incorrectly captioned 'Henri Taine', this cancelled in pencil and with a further editorial instruction in the margin. (Light soiling.) Matted, framed, and glazed (not examined outside of the frame). Provenance: sold, Sotheby's, lot 276, 30 November 1989, to the present consignor).
Hyppolyte Taine (1828-1893) was an influential French critic and historian; the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica notes that 'the tone which pervades the works of Zola, Bourget and Maupassant can be immediately attributed to the influence we call Taine's'. The drawing was reproduced, without the caption, in the 9 March 1893 Pall Mall Budget, and exhibited in Aubrey Beardsley: A Centenary Tribute, which travelled in Japan from 21 February to 26 July 1998 (catalogue number 62, p.103).
Pen and ink on paper (240 x 170mm), a head-and-shoulders three-quarter profile facing left, incorrectly captioned 'Henri Taine', this cancelled in pencil and with a further editorial instruction in the margin. (Light soiling.) Matted, framed, and glazed (not examined outside of the frame). Provenance: sold, Sotheby's, lot 276, 30 November 1989, to the present consignor).
Hyppolyte Taine (1828-1893) was an influential French critic and historian; the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica notes that 'the tone which pervades the works of Zola, Bourget and Maupassant can be immediately attributed to the influence we call Taine's'. The drawing was reproduced, without the caption, in the 9 March 1893 Pall Mall Budget, and exhibited in Aubrey Beardsley: A Centenary Tribute, which travelled in Japan from 21 February to 26 July 1998 (catalogue number 62, p.103).
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