Two girls drawing copies of paintings hanging in a gallery. Etching by Ad. Lalauze.

  • Lalauze, Adolphe, 1838-1906.
Date:
1880
Reference:
29100i
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State with lettering has legend : La leçon de dessin.

Description

One sits on a stool, the other on an ottoman, resting their drawing boards on antique-style chairs. Above are two paintings in richly moulded uniform gold frames, canted forwards. On the floor, left, are a plaster model of the head of a cherub, and a representation of two children, as examples of art school models

Publication/Creation

1880

Physical description

1 print : etching, with drypoint ; image 17.2 x 12 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Ad. Lalauze

Edition

[State before letters].

References note

Jacques Lethève, Françoise Gardey, and Jean Adhémar, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome XII, Paris 1963, p. 290, no. 45 ("Pl. dans L'artiste, 1877 : t. V, p. 72, La leçon de dessin")

Reference

Wellcome Collection 29100i

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