Live Auction 5433Old Master & British Pictures & Old Master Drawings
French or Russian School, circa 1820
Lot 411

French or Russian School, circa 1820

Encore un Pourceaugnac

Closed2 December 2008

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GBP 625

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French or Russian School, circa 1820
Encore un Pourceaugnac
with inscription 'Encore un Pourceaugnac Je suis un de ces pauvres provinciaux sur le compte du quel on cherche toujours à se divertir.'
watercolour and bodycolour, on paper, laid down on board
7 7/8 x 10 3/8 in. (200 x 263 mm.)

Specialist note

Illustrates a play by Eugène Scribe, Le nouveau Pourceaugnac, Paris, 1817. It was made into an opera by Catterino Cavos played in Saint Petersburg in 1819. The present drawing might have been made on that occasion as would suggest the Russian military costumes worn by the masculine figures.