ID 1172992
Lot 55 | THOMAS COUTURE (SENLIS 1815-1879)
Estimate value
€ 4 000 – 6 000
Étude de Zouave tenant un fusil à baillonnettes
inscrit ‘Etude pour ‘l’Empire/ terrassant l’Anarchie” tableau/ destiné au Pavillon Denon et/ non exécuté’ (en bas au centre)
pierre noire, sur papier gris, filigrane blason avec initiales EB
44 x 30,5 cm (17 3⁄8 x 12 in.)
Provenance
Galerie de la Scala, Paris.
Further details
THOMAS COUTURE, STUDY OF A ZOUAVE HOLDING A GUN WITH BAYONET, BLACK CHALK, ON GREY PAPER
Couture produced a number of preparatory studies for an unrealised decorative design for the Louvre’s Denon Pavilion, depicting the French Empire pushed back Anarchy with the support of the Church and the Army (R. Ballu, Catalogue des œuvres de Th. Couture exposées au palais de l'Industrie, Paris, 1880, p. XXIII). Two other sketches are preserved at the Musée de Senlis: a compositional sketch (inv. A.00.6.64), which allows us to situate the figure in the present drawing, and a study of a zouave’s distinctive trousers (inv. A.2012.2.1). A similar study of a right arm, also in black chalk on blue paper, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. 2018.904.3), and bears an inscription in the same hand as on the present sheet.
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