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Jules Bastien-Lepage (Damvillers 1848-1884 Paris)
Lot 168

Jules Bastien-Lepage (Damvillers 1848-1884 Paris)

Orpheus

Closed6 December 2012

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Jules Bastien-Lepage (Damvillers 1848-1884 Paris)
Orpheus
signed 'J. BASTIEN-LEPAGE'
charcoal and white chalk and stumping, on light brown paper, watermark MICHALLET.
18 x 12 in. (45.8 x 30.3 cm.)

Specialist note

A study for the painting of the same subject executed in 1877, the present location of which is unknown. For a preparatory oil sketch of the same composition, see M.-M. Aubrun, Jules Bastien-Lepage 1848-1884, Paris, 1985, p. 115, no. 126.