28th Mar, 2018 10:00

British & Continental Pictures & Photographs

 
Lot 40
 

40

ALBERT DE BELLEROCHE (1864-1944)

ALBERT DE BELLEROCHE (1864-1944) A FOLIO OF DRAWINGS AND LITHOGRAPHS: INCLUDING FIGURE STUDIES AND ARCHITECTURAL STUDIES various media various sizes unframed Albert de Belleroche was Welsh-born, though he spent most of his childhood in Paris and England. He studied at Carolus-Duran's school in Paris at the same time as John Singer Sargent, and the two made numerous sketches of each other. It has been suggested that the two shared an intimate relationship, although de Belleroche went on to marry the sculptor Jules Edouard Visseaux's daughter. de Belleroche, like Sargent was friends of Oscar Wilde, Emile Zola, Renoir and Henri Toulouse-Latrec; de Belleroche painted the latter's portrait. (8)

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ALBERT DE BELLEROCHE (1864-1944) A FOLIO OF DRAWINGS AND LITHOGRAPHS: INCLUDING FIGURE STUDIES AND ARCHITECTURAL STUDIES various media various sizes unframed Albert de Belleroche was Welsh-born, though he spent most of his childhood in Paris and England. He studied at Carolus-Duran's school in Paris at the same time as John Singer Sargent, and the two made numerous sketches of each other. It has been suggested that the two shared an intimate relationship, although de Belleroche went on to marry the sculptor Jules Edouard Visseaux's daughter. de Belleroche, like Sargent was friends of Oscar Wilde, Emile Zola, Renoir and Henri Toulouse-Latrec; de Belleroche painted the latter's portrait. (8)