LEON BENOUVILLE (1821-1859)

WOMEN BRINGING SACRIFICES TO A CLASSICAL TEMPLE

Signed & dated l.r. L. Benouville / Rome Juillet 1851

Pencil with grey wash, heightened with white

20.5 x 17 cm

PROVENANCE:

With Colnaghi, New York;

Private collection, U.K.

This drawing relates to two other studies of the same subject now in the Musee des Beaux-Arts, Rouen (Inv. 897.6.103 (358) and 897.6.95A (339)) [1]

NOTES
Cf. M-A. Aubrun, Leon Benouville 1821-1859, Nantes (1981), p. 257, nos. D. 371 & D. 372

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