Cormon - Natural History Museum - Drawing

Fernand CORMON (Paris 1845 - 1924)
Study of a woman making pottery
Red chalk, red chalk wash, black pencil and white gouache highlights
40 x 26.5 cm - 59.5 x 41 cm
Insolated, old traces of glue
Signed and dated “97” lower center
In its period frame.

Provenance: - Galerie Beugniet et Bonjean (Active at the end of the 19th century)

Related work: - “La Poterie”, decoration of the Paleontology amphitheater of the Natural History Museum of Paris

Preparatory study for the figure in the background of one of the wall panels commissioned by the State from Cormon in 1893 to decorate the paleontology amphitheater of the Natural History Museum of Paris. The theme chosen for the whole is that of the evolution of man from prehistory to the Iron Age. The panels are still there today and the sketches are kept at the Petit Palais (In particular the one for the pottery INV. PDUT1391).

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