ID 1172944
Lot 103 | GUSTAVE MOREAU (PARIS 1826-1808)
Estimate value
€ 3 000 – 5 000
Étude d’homme casqué, avec reprise de sa tête
graphite
22 x 29,4 cm (8 5⁄8 x 11 ½ in.)
Provenance
Vente Artcurial, Paris, 20 juin 2011, lot 188.
Exhibited
Paris, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Quand Moreau signait Chassériau, 2005, p. 43, n° 9, ill (catalogue par E. Brugerolles).
Further details
GUSTAVE MOREAU, STUDIES OF A MAN WEARING A HELMET, GRAPHITE
This is a preliminary study for a painting refused by the Salon of 1852, Darius fleeing after the battle of Arbelles, exhausted from his flight, he drinks from muddy water, in the Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris (inv. 223; see P.-L. Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, Paris, 1998, no. 12, ill.). The painting was exhibited at the Salon the following year in 1853 (no. 847). The present drawing is a study for the figure of the soldier standing behind the Persian monarch.
| Artist: | Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson (1767 - 1824) |
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| Applied technique: | Graphite |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic, Stone |
| Genre: | Mythological painting |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Artist: | Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson (1767 - 1824) |
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| Applied technique: | Graphite |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic, Stone |
| Genre: | Mythological painting |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
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