Resting Fauna After Praxiteles By Théobald Chartran

Beautiful drawing after an antique by Théobald Chartran while he was a student of Alexandre Cabanel at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The drawing is annotated twice on the back in pen and pencil: Chartran, Cabanel and Yvon  old annotations that often prove to be accurate concerning the work of students at the École des Beaux-Arts. The antique from which the drawing is based is the Resting Faun in the Capitoline Museum in Rome, a Roman copy of a marble by Praxiteles. The drawing must have been made from one of the many plaster casts that adorned the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the 19th century. Théobald Chartran (1849-1907) was born in Besançon and was destined for the judiciary, but a natural gift for drawing led him to join Alexandre Cabanel's studio at the École des Beaux-Arts, where he was rewarded with the Prix de Rome in 1877. He became the official painter of the Third Republic and was also in great demand as a portraitist in the United States, where he traveled regularly. The drawing is sold as a sheet. Some stains and traces of slight creases should be noted.