Original drawing and wash by Jules Laurens. Date and place inscribed in black pencil by the artist at the top right of the work (November 1848). Presented in an antique varnished and gilt wooden frame, under glass. Minor black mark at the upper left corner and a very small imperfection at the lower right corner; overall, a well-preserved piece.
Jules Joseph Auguste Laurens was a painter and lithographer, born in Carpentras on 27 July 1825, died in Saint-Didier on 5 May 1901. From a family of five children, Jules joined at the age of twelve his elder brother, Jean-Joseph Bonaventure Laurens, who had settled in Montpellier. He enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier, alo