BIB_ID
318312
Accession number
MA 2592.22
Creator
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944.
Display Date
New York, 1942
Credit line
Purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 1968.
Description
1 drawing
Notes
A preparatory watercolor drawing by Saint-Exupéry for Le petit prince.
The sheet is irregularly shaped: a rectangular section (ca. 4.2 x 14.9 cm) has been cut out of the lower right.
This drawing is p. 159B of the autograph manuscript of Le petit prince (MA 2592). See related record for more information.
Title from Lacroix, no. 476.
7 13/16 x 8 1/2 inches (198 x 215 mm)
Provenance
Mrs. Silvia Reinhardt; purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 1968.
Summary
Drawing shows the explorer conversing with the geographer, who is seated at a large desk; several boxes, a plant, a horn and some arrows and bones are arranged behind the explorer.
Medium
Watercolor and ink on onionskin paper
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