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Clau<strong>de</strong>-Louis Desrais<br />

Paris 1746 – 1816<br />

Job raillé par sa femme<br />

Job Mocked by his Wife<br />

Pierre noire, plume et encre noire, lavis brun, rehauts <strong>de</strong> blancs, sur papier brun.<br />

Signé et daté C.L. <strong>de</strong>srais 1769 en bas. Encadré.<br />

Black chalk, pen and black ink, brown wash, white highlights, on brown paper.<br />

Signed and dated C.L. <strong>de</strong>srais 1769 at the bottom. Framed.<br />

294 x 282 mm (11 5 /8 x 11 1 /8 in.)<br />

Dans les années 1760 et 1770, Clau<strong>de</strong>-Louis Desrais, encore jeune peintre, cè<strong>de</strong><br />

comme d’autres <strong>de</strong>ssinateurs parmi lesquels son maître Casanova, à la mo<strong>de</strong> d’un<br />

<strong>de</strong>ssin sombre et très contrasté, tout en nuances <strong>de</strong> lavis <strong>de</strong> brun, abondamment<br />

illuminé par <strong>de</strong> lourds rehauts <strong>de</strong> blanc. Cette manière est certainement héritée <strong>de</strong>s<br />

<strong>de</strong>ssins « ténébristes » <strong>de</strong> Jean Baptiste Deshays, revenu d’Italie en 1759 et jouissant<br />

à cette époque d’un grand succès, et <strong>de</strong> certaines œuvres <strong>de</strong> François Boucher faisant<br />

preuve <strong>de</strong> la même tendance. Ses <strong>de</strong>ssins <strong>de</strong>viennent plus illustratifs et d’un graphisme<br />

simplifié par la suite <strong>de</strong> sa carrière.<br />

In the 1760s and 1770s, when Clau<strong>de</strong>-Louis Desrais was still a young painter, he<br />

succumbed – as other draughtsmen including his master Casanova – to the trend of<br />

sombre and very contrasted drawing full of nuances of brown wash and abundantly<br />

illuminated by heavy white highlights. This manner was certainly inherited from<br />

“tenebrous” drawings of Jean Baptiste Deshays, who had returned from Italy in 1759<br />

and was enjoying a great success at the time, as well as from certain works of<br />

François Boucher <strong>de</strong>monstrating the same trend. Later in Desrais’s career his drawings<br />

became more illustrative with simplified draughtsmanship.<br />

Vendu/Sold<br />

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<strong>Catalogue</strong> <strong>de</strong> Noël

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