A Disciple, A Study for a Figure in The Supper at Emmaus

Details

Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (French, 1852-1929)
A Disciple, A Study for a Figure in The Supper at Emmaus
signed and dedicated 'A Monsieur Onslow Ford, affectueusement PAJ Dagnan. B.' (lower right) and dated 'Jeudi 11/iv/97' (below his left sleeve)
charcoal with red chalk on brown paper
16 x 10¾ in. (40.6 x 27.3 cm.)
Executed in 1897

Provenance

Onslow Ford Collection, London (gift from the artist).

Lot Essay

Gabriel Weisberg confirms that this drawing is a preparatory study for the figure at the left in Dagnan-Bouveret's Christ and the Disciples at Emmaus, 1896-97, now housed at the Carnegie Museum in
Pittsburgh. The present work is also related to preliminary studies by the artist for his painting The Last Supper in Arras, France where the same model was used.

(fig. 1) Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnat-Bouveret, Christ and the Disciples at Emmaus, 1896-1897, Photo Courtesy: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh: Gift of Henry Clay Frick

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