Artists' first edition drawings, preparatory studies, sketches, China ink and signed watercolors

First edition, one of 75 numbered copies on couleurs surfine paper, ours being one of 25 containing the three aquatints by Mimi Parent retouched in watercolor which she signed and justified, deluxe copy.
Autograph inscription signed by José Pierre to Paul Aveline.
Signatures of José Pierre and Mimi Parent below the justification page.
Work illustrated with 3 aquatints by Mimi Parent.
Spine very lightly sunned without gravity, otherwise handsome copy.

Original charcoal drawing, presented under a two-colour mat frame.
With the workshop's stamp on the back.
Very good condition.

Provenance: artist's workshop, referenced in the Atelier Louis Anquetin catalogue (Thierry de Maigret, 28/11/08).

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...