Study Of Drapery By Guillaume Cabasson, Charcoal And White Chalk Drawing

Guillaume Cabasson was a French painter, engraver, and art professor. At the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he was able to study under the sculptor Pierre-Jean David d'Angers, but especially under the painter Paul Delaroche, with whom he studied history painting. The latter made him his assistant and tasked him with restoring the stained-glass windows of several churches in Rouen, including Saint-Patrice, between 1840 and 1843. It was also in Rouen that he received his first distinction, a gold medal, for his painting The Captivity of Saint-Louis, at the exhibition of Norman arts and artists in 1840 in the same city. Delaroche, who worked on the paintings in the hemicycle of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris until 1843, asked Cabasson to produce all the drawings to be used in the design of this fresco. He exhibited at the Salons from 1841 to 1882. The upper part of the drawing has undergone uniform oxidation. On the back: sketched silhouette of a man.