Ismène.

Drawing, black pencil, 19 x 26,4 cm, wove paper, titled on reverse (difficult to read) and on the passe-partout, monogr., dated and dedicated in lower right corner.

Stuck by one corner under passe-partout (margins sl. stained).

Nice symbolist drawing featuring a woman playing the harp and a steaming urn by a river. By the Belgian painter, illustrator and engraver Mertens (1865-1919). A sketch for a book illustration? (irregular shape) with in the right blank part an autogr. dedication to "mijnen vriend [my friend] Pol de Mont".
Prov. Pol de Mont (1857-1931), Belgian Flemish-speaking writer and poet (dedic.).