Two Standing Figures (Study for the Left Section of The Mission of the Apostles)

Provenance

Estate of the artist (Lugt 933, lower right, in black ink); [probably artist's studio sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris (15-17 May 1865), part of no. 113 (this lot went to Haroa for 650 francs)]. [Shepherd Gallery, New York]; purchased in 1977.; a. According to an inscription in an album of drawings by Michel-Martin Drolling, Haro was a "Restaurateur de tableaux, Neveu et Eléve de M. Rey" whose shop, "Au génie des arts," was at 30 rue du Colombier; see De Corot aux impressionnistes, donations Moreau-Nelaton, exh. cat., Grand Palais, Paris (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1991), no. 301.

Two Standing Figures (Study for the Left Section of The Mission of the Apostles)

Hippolyte Jean Flandrin

1860

Accession Number

2008.365

Medium

graphite; squared in graphite

Dimensions

Sheet: 30.2 x 23.6 cm (11 7/8 x 9 5/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Bequest of Muriel Butkin