Peasant Woman Standing with a Boy, 1825, Gabriel Alexandre Decamps, French, Paris 1803–Fontainebleau 1860, 9 11/16 × 8 7/16 in. ( × cm) (sheet), Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, France, 19th century, A distracted student, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps disliked the large academic studios of his brief training and was largely self-taught. This rare early drawing dates from the year before his debut at the Paris Salons. It reveals his early interest in rural subjects and talent for naturalistic description

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