Old Master Drawings

Old Master Drawings

FRENCH SCHOOL, EARLY 19TH CENTURY | PORTRAIT OF A MAN IN PROFILE, WEARING AN EARRING

Auction Closed

January 29, 05:09 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

FRENCH SCHOOL, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

PORTRAIT OF A MAN IN PROFILE, WEARING AN EARRING


Black chalk and stumping, heightened with white chalk

423 by 295 mm; 16⅝ by 11⅝ mm

Another portrait drawing depicting a young boy, executed in an identical combination of media, and undoubtedly by the same hand as the present work, was sold in these rooms in 2019.1


1. Sale, New York, Sotheby's, 30 January 2019, lot 71 ($16,250)

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