Lot 138
  • 138

Nicolas-Henri Jacob

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description

  • Nicolas-Henri Jacob
  • a little girl with her doll, her brother holding a ball
  • Black chalk with touches of white heightening;
    signed: n.h. Jacob del. and dated: 1810  

Exhibited

London, Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox, Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century Drawings and Oil Sketches, 1996, cat. no. 7

Condition

Laid down on modern mount. Old vertical crease up middle of paper. Top right corner repaired and seems to be a repair around the date bottom right and tear at top right side.
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Catalogue Note

Jacob was a pupil of Jacques-Louis David.  He first exhibited at the Salon of 1802 and continued to do so until 1865.  In 1805 he travelled in Italy as personal drawing master to Eugène de Beauharnais.  Jacob established his own drawing academy in Paris in 1835.