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Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps
Paris 1803 – 1860 Fontainebleau
Death and the Woodsman
size: 247 x 196 mm, 9 3/4 x 7 ¾ in.
technique: Charcoal, white gouache, incised
provenance: Private collection, Paris
bibliography: Adolphe Moreau, Decamps et son œuvre, avec des planches originales les plus rares, Paris, 1869, p. 257; Dewey F. Mosby, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps 1803-1860, New York, 1977, vol. I, mentioned under cat. 536
Description
The theme of Death and the Woodsman was directly taken from Jean de la Fontaine’s fable: a woodsman, exhausted by his hard life and work, calls Death to deliver him from his suffering. Decamps tackled this subject in 1858, the year his son poisoned himself by drinking vitriol. The artist must have called Death many times to deliver the young boy from his pain. Decamps attempted this theme several times: one painted version and two drawn versions, one vertical and one horizontal, are today referenced but not localized. Our drawing could correspond to the vertical version due to their similar dimensions. Eugene Leroux most probably used our drawing to execute the lithograph of the composition : it has the same dimensions as the lithograph and it is incised.
Additional information
| size: | 247 x 196 mm, 9 <sup> 3/4 </sup> x 7 ¾ in. |
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| technique: | Charcoal, white gouache, incised |
| provenance: | Private collection, Paris |
| bibliography: | Adolphe Moreau, Decamps et son œuvre, avec des planches originales les plus rares, Paris, 1869, p. 257; |
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