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JAMES-JACQUES-JOSEPH TISSOT (NANTES 1836-1906 HERBERT JAMES DRAPER (LONDON 1864-1920)
CHENECEY-BUILLON) Studies of a man's draped waist, and head (recto); A nude study of a
A study of two girls in North European 16th Century dress woman (verso)
signed ‘J.J. Tissot’ with studio stamp (lower right), numbered '47' (lower left) and with artists
graphite heightened with white, on brown wove paper notes
11√ x 9º in. (30.2 x 23.5 cm) black, brown, and white chalk (recto); black chalk with stumping (verso), on
brown wove paper, watermark ‘CANSON & MONTGOLFIER VIDALON-
$3,000-4,000
LES-A[...]’
24º x 19Ω in. (61.5 x 49.5 cm)
PROVENANCE:
with David and Constance Yates, New York. $6,000-10,000
Although it is not possible to relate the present studies to a specific painting, PROVENANCE:
the sheet belongs to the early years of Tissot’s activity when the artist often Estate of the artist (his mark ‘H.J.D’, not in Lugt); by descent in the family.
treated scenes in a Northern Renaissance setting (see C. Wood, Tissot. The with Julian Hartnoll, London, 1999.
Life and Works of Jacques Joseph Tissot 1836-1902, London, 1986, pp. 19-29). LITERATURE:
S. Toll, Herbert Draper. A Life Study, Woodbridge, 2003, p. 94, no. HJD87.xiii.
The Lament of Icarus is one of Draper's best-known works, depicting the
eponymous reckless son dragged onto a rock by three mourning nymphs,
exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1898 and now at Tate Gallery, London (inv.
NO1679). Draper used a number of professional models and made many
detailed drawings of each individual figure in preparation. The singing nymph
with her arms outstretched in despair on the verso of the present sheet was
drawn from Ethel Gurden, while the model for the dying figure of Icarus
(recto) was Luigi di Lucca, an Italian model whose distinctive strong bone
structure appeared in many of Draper's works of the 1890s.

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