Geneva, 1822 - Paris, 1892
Study of a woman for the figure of Industry for the ceiling of Jean-François Cail's hotel in Paris (actually town hall of the 8th arrondissement)
Painting, oil on fine cardboard glued on canvas
Unsigned
Painting: 81 x 65 cm
Degas oak frame: 96 x 80 cm
Good condition, small discreet restorations
Circa 1863-65
Note: another sketch is reproduced in the exhibition catalog "Pierre-Victor Galland, a Tiepolo French in the 19th century", Roubaix Art Museum and National Tapestry Gallery of Beauvais, 2006-2007, p.70, figure 192.
Superb painting evoking the paintings of Eugène Carrière.