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live November 25 | 02:30 PM
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196 - Jean-Léon GÉRÔME (Vesoul 1824 – Paris 1904)

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€2,000 - 3,000

Sale fees

34%

Jean-Léon GÉRÔME (Vesoul 1824 – Paris 1904) Man Dragging a Woman by the Hair Red chalk 32.3 x 20.8 cm Signed and inscribed “To my friend Michel Casne?” in the upper left corner Laminated drawing, slightly sun-faded, with scattered foxing spots This drawing is a preparatory study for the painting titled “The Age of Augustus” (in the lower left corner)The painting, dated 1855, is housed at the Musée de Picardie in Amiens. There is also a sketch of this same painting held at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Santa Monica, California (see: G.M. Ackerman, Jean Léon Gérôme, Catalogue Raisonné, ACR Edition, Paris, 1986, pp. 35 and 229, nos. 64 and 64.2)

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Auction details

Drawings from 1500 to 1900
Wednesday, November 25
02:30 PM
Hôtel Drouot
9, rue Drouot
75009 Paris, France

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On Drouot for more than 10 years avec More than 570,000 lots published

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