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Old Master Drawings
by Sotheby's
2001
USA
Lot 366: *Thomas Couture (1815-1879) Recto: study of a dead soldier; verso: male figure study. Black chalk
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*Thomas Couture (1815-1879) Recto: study of a dead soldier; verso: male figure study. Black chalk (recto and verso) on pale blue paper. 299 by 432mm. Couture's painting 1815, which was destroyed during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, was intended as a denunciation of the corruption of the Napoleonic era. Judging from the oil sketch which records the original composition, this drawing of a dead soldier appears to be a study for a figure in the foreground (A. Boime, Thomas Couture and the Eclectic Vision, 1980, IX.90, whereabouts unknown).
*Thomas Couture (1815-1879)
Recto: study of a dead soldier;
verso: male figure study.
Black chalk (recto and verso) on pale blue paper.
299 by 432mm.
Couture's painting 1815, which was destroyed during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, was intended as a denunciation of the corruption of the Napoleonic era. Judging from the oil sketch which records the original composition, this drawing of a dead soldier appears to be a study for a figure in the foreground (A. Boime, Thomas Couture and the Eclectic Vision, 1980, IX.90, whereabouts unknown).
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Auction House
by Sotheby's
Auction Title
Old Master Drawings
Auction Date
2001
Location
USABuyer's Premium
20% of the amount up to and including 100,000. 12% of the amount of hammer price over 100,000
