Jean-Baptiste PATER Lot n° 15

Woman and child Sanguine, lower right, mark of the former Cailleux collection. 10,5 x 9 cm Provenance : Former CAILLEUX collection. Sanguines French drawings of the eighteenth century, in 1978, n°34, reproduced. Since private collection. This group is comparable with the one seen, in front of a tent, in the Réjouissance de soldats (Paris, musée du Louvre, inv. 7137) which constitutes the reception piece at the Academy of PATER in December 1728 (cf. Ingersoll-Smouse, Pater, Paris, 1921, cat. 397, pl. 108). The authenticity of this work has been certified by Madame Marianne ROLAND MICHEL.