Lot 69: HILAIRE LE DRU

HILAIRE LE DRU 1769 - 1840 A SEATED MAN HOLDING HIS HEAD IN HIS HAND signed Hilaire le Dru lower left black chalk on wove paper. Together with Jean-Baptiste Isabey, A Young Man , signed and dated Isabey/ 1810 center left edge, oval, black chalk with stumping heightened with white gouache on buff wove on paper. 2 works. the first 9 1/4 by 7 3/8 in.; the second 7 3/8 by 5 3/4 in. 23.5 by 18.7 cm; 18.3 by 14.6 cm

The first: Yale 2010, no. 148
The second: New York, Day and Bird, at E.J. Landrigan, Inc., Old Master, European and Modern British Drawings and Sculpture, March 5-9, 1990
Morgan 2001, no. 58
Yale 2010, no. 147

The first: Concorde Fine Arts, Wilmington, Delaware
W.M. Brady & Co., New York
The second: Richard Day, London
Acquired from the above, 1990