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DAY & FABER master drawings

    Jean-François Bosio (Monaco 1764 - 1827 Paris)

    le lever des ouvrières en linge

    Description:

    signed lower left: BOSIO. D. S.
    dated lower right: à Paris, en 1803
    titled lower centre: lever des ouvrières en linge
    pen and brown ink and watercolor heightened with white
    244 x 327 mm

    Provenance:

    Henrici, sale, Berlin, 29th June 1920, lot 97, illustrated
    Ferault, slae, Paris, 15th – 31st December, 1925, lot 10, illustrated
    Henri Ledoux, his mark lower left: HL (Lugt 4052)
    Christie’s, London, 29th November 1983, lot 113
    Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, Nineteenth Century French Drawings, June – July 1983, no.
    Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1980
    Sotheby’s, London, 7th July 1999, lot 174 (£84,000)
    Private Collection, Paris until 2014

    Note:

    Both this drawing and its pendant le coucher des ouvrières en linge, were published as engravings in 1817.

    le lever des ouvrières en linge