BIB_ID
318333
Accession number
MA 2592.35
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 sketch by Saint-Exupéry for Le petit prince, related to the illustration for part XXVI, which shows the little prince seated in the same manner on a hill with a single flower ([Paris]: Gallimard, c1946 [1967 impression]), p. 90.
This drawing is p. 171 of the autograph manuscript of Le petit prince (MA 2592). See related record for more information.
Title from Lacroix, no. 459.
11 x 8 1/2 inches (279 x 215 mm)
Provenance
Mrs. Silvia Reinhardt; purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 1968.
Summary
Drawing shows two sketches of the little prince seated with his legs crossed.
Medium
Graphite on onionskin paper
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