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EUGÈNE FROMENTIN (LA ROCHELLE 1820-1876)
Lot 147 Property from a New York Academic’s Collection

EUGÈNE FROMENTIN (LA ROCHELLE 1820-1876)

A youth in oriental costume

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EUGÈNE FROMENTIN (LA ROCHELLE 1820-1876)
A youth in oriental costume
signed and inscribed ‘A l’ami Hebert/ Eug. Fromentin’ (lower left)
black chalk, pastel on gray (formerly blue) paper
21 ¼ x 14 in. (54 x 35.5 cm)

Antoine-Auguste-Ernest Hébert (1817-1908), Paris.
Deane F. Johnson, New York; Christie’s, New York, 12 January 2005, lot 596.

Specialist note

The dedicatee of this study of a boy in North African clothes, probably made during the artist’s travels in the region, is the academic painter Ernest Hébert, a close friend of Fromentin.