Gustave Boulanger, Roman Slave Boy (1886)

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Object description :

"Gustave Boulanger, Roman Slave Boy (1886)"

GUSTAVE BOULANGER (Paris 1824-1888)
Roman Slave Boy
1886
Black chalk on tracing paper stuck down on thicker paper
30 × 12 cm
Stamp in red ink, lower right, from the Boulanger sale which takes the form of a facsimile of the signature of the artist
Provenance: Boulanger Sale, Hôtel Drouot, March 14-16, 1889

This drawing is the study on tracing paper by Gustave Boulanger for his figure of a slave boy in the painting The Roman Slave Market which he exhibited at the Salon of 1886. If you look at Marie-Madeleine Aubrun's publication on Boulanger (1986) you will see that Boulanger made a drawing on tracing paper exactly like this for many of his important figures.

Price: 400 €

Artist: Gustave Boulanger
Period: 19th century
Style: Other Style
Condition: Good condition

Material: Paper
Width: 12
Height: 30

Reference: 1134987