BÉRAUD Jean, 1849-1935 Meeting at the Élysée-Ménilmontant... Lot 1

BÉRAUD Jean, 1849-1935 Meeting at the Élysée-Ménilmontant Public Ball, circa 1880 pen, brown ink and white gouache highlights on paper (insolation, and trace of fold), signed lower right 26x19 cm BIBLIOGRAPHY: Patrick Offenstadt, Jean Béraud, La belle époque une catalogue raisonné, Taschen, 1999, the three figures are those represented in the represented in the centre of the works described and reproduced under n°224 and 225 pp.194-195, Le Bal public, Élysée-Ménilmontant. The final painting, of very large format, was exhibited at the 1880 Salon