Ink drawing on paper, portrait of the French writer François-René de Chateaubriand (1768 Saint Malo - 1846 Paris), seated half-length portrait, holding on his knees a rolled manuscript of the Mémoires doutre tombe (Memories from Beyond the Grave), completed in 1848, applied to paper and this laminated on cardboard, signs of age (including foxing, browned), sheet approx. 29 x 23 cm, cardboard approx. 44 x 36 cm, around 1840
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143. Kunst- und Antiquitätenauktion am 22. November 2024