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Jean-Alexandre-Joseph Falguière
1831-1900
Sketchbook
3 3/8 x 5 1/8 inches (87 x 130 mm)
Pen and brown ink (for the first sheet only), and graphite, some black and white chalk, stumped, on paper.
1994.15
Gift of John M. Thayer.
Notes
This sketchbook by the late nineteenth-century French sculptor and painter contains forty-two leaves, totaling over thirty-five drawings, primarily single figures and compositional studies.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed on the first sheet, in pen and brown ink, at lower left, "Falguière"; inscribed inside front cover, "Skizzenbuck des berühmten Bild- / hauers Falguiére [sic] / Erworben Paris 1904 / Prof. A. Politzer"; inside back cover, Ex Libris plate: "EX LIBRIS / Prof. Adami Politzer / opera sculpturae cari nepotis Waltheri Friedländer."
Associated names
Politzer, Adam, former owner.
Friedländer, Reinhold, former owner.
Thayer, John M. (John MacLane), 1944-2004, former owner.
Friedländer, Reinhold, former owner.
Thayer, John M. (John MacLane), 1944-2004, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
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