French School, early 19th century

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

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Description

The optimistic violinist
Black chalk heightened with white

Catalogue Note

There is hardly a genre drawing made in France in the period around 1800 that does not have some symbolic, poetic or literary meaning. Here, an old violinist tries to play his instrument, despite one of the strings being broken. What can that mean?