Lot 141
  • 141

EMILE FRIANT | A child's sorrow

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 EUR
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Description

  • Emile Friant
  • A child's sorrow
  • Signed and dated lower left E. Friant / 97
  • Black pencil on extended sheet of paper
  • 69,5 x 51 cm ; 27 3/8 by 20 in.

Provenance

Probably, Sale of M. Corbin's collection, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19 & 20 October 1936, lot 39, titled Les petites soeurs

Exhibited

Emile Friant, le dernier naturaliste ?, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, 4 November 2016 - 27 February 2017, n°92c, illustrated p. 175

Literature

For an illustration of the final painting, see  Collecting in the Gilded Age, Art patronage in Pittsburgh 1890-1910, The Frick Art Museum, Pittsburgh, 1997, n° 96 p. 259 ;
Henri Claude, Friant, Vaux, 2005, illustrated p.122 ;
Exhibition catalogue, A l'épreuve du réel, Les peintres et la photographie au XIXe siècle, Musée Gustave Courbet, Ornans, 30 June - 1st October 2012, illustrated p. 128

Condition

the drawing: - drawing on two sheets of tainted paper : the original sheet of 54 x 37 cm and the extended sheet (total : 69,5 x 91 cm) - small white spots in the background (upper left, and by the little girl on the right, and on her left arm) - traces (probably glue) lower left of the original sheet, and another one towards the upper right of the original sheet the print: - good condition - two little foxing areas in the background, above the girls' heads; - some foxing on the edges; - some creasing; - small fold in the left corner; - sold framed with a glass pane and natural wooden frame
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Catalogue Note

To be sold with a print of the same subject.
Study for Chagrin d'enfant, dated 1898, kept in the Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh.