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.