Western Art Drawings Collection

Anonymous, French

formerly attributed to Jean Barbault (1718 - 1762)

Recto: Seated Figure, dressed for a Turkish Masquerade Verso: Seated Figure in flowing Robes,  1748

Whiteley (2000) 875

Recto: Red chalk on thin, off-white paper Verso: Red chalk, offset.  Sheet: 481 x 358 mm

Inscribed in brown ink at lower right of centre: J. Vien

Provenance:&Nbsp; : Mme de V. Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 25 March 1925, lot 117, ill. Christie's, 30 March 1976, lot 102

The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Purchased with the assistance of The Art Fund and the Trustees of the Festival of Islam, in memory of Denys Munby (1919-76), fellow of Nuffield College, 1976.; 

WA1976.75