Personnage en habit regardant dans le lointain - Dessin original à l'encre signé

Original ink drawing, signed E. Devéria in the lower right.
Portrait of a young man in formal attire, holding a handkerchief in his left hand.
Eugène Devéria (1805–1865) was one of the major painters of the Romantic movement alongside Eugène Delacroix. From the start, his submissions to the Salon attracted notice, culminating in 1827 with la Naissance de Henri IV [The Birth of Henry IV], which enjoyed considerable success. He continued to depict historical scenes, notably Puget presenting his Milon of Crotone to Louis XIV for a Louvre ceiling. Shortly thereafter, invited to leave the capital, his work became more discreet. Nevertheless, he remained a reference artist for Romanticism, mingling with painters and writers and producing elegant figures rendered with precise and fluid line.