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Jean-Alexandre-Joseph Falguière
1831-1900
Sketchbook
Pen and brown ink (for the first sheet only), and graphite, some black and white chalk, stumped, on paper.
3 3/8 x 5 1/8 inches (87 x 130 mm)
Gift of John M. Thayer.
1994.15
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.
Inscription:
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."
Provenance:
Prof. Dr. Adam Politzer (1835-1920; Lugt 2741); presumably by descent to his grandson, Reinhold Friedländer; John M. Thayer, Wilmington, DE.
Associated names:
Politzer, Adam, former owner.
Friedländer, Reinhold, former owner.
Thayer, John M. (John MacLane), 1944-2004, former owner.
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