Untitled (lady with cat, recto; lady at piano, verso)
circa 1880
19th century
31.4 cm x 20.3 cm (12 3/8 in. x 8 in.)
Edouard de Beaumont
(Lannion, 1821 - 1888, Paris)
Primary
Object Type:
drawing
Artist Nationality:
Europe, French
Medium and Support:
Graphite on wove paper
Credit Line:
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Alvin and Ethel Romansky, 1977
Accession Number:
1982.290
The untitled drawing of a girl delicately playing with a cat is probably a sketch for a lithograph, athough it is surprising that the artist scraped and reworked his lines so many times for an image that would have to be redrawn on the stone. On the verso of the drawing is a simpler sketch of a similar female seated in profile and playing the piano.