Live auction - Lot 251
Church sermon.
Brussels, 1834
€ 120 / 150
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Lot description
Drawing, pen and black ink, grey wash, traces of graphite, 15,2 x 26,4 cm, ivory paper, signed and dated in pen at lower left corner "Henry Monnier, 1834" (trimmed to border, sl. toned).
Under passe-partout.
A large gathering of people attending a church service. Signed by the French playwright, caricaturist and actor Henry Monnier ( 1799-1877). The drawing was made in the same year when he married Caroline Péguchet (known as Caroline Linsel), an actress at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels.