Louis-Philippe Boitard Head: Sleeping Child

An original 18th-century watercolour painting, Louis-Philippe Boitard, Head: Sleeping Child.

A striking and touching study of a small child's sleeping head. There is a ink and wash drawing of the same subject in the collection of the Courtauld Gallery, London.Pen & ink and watercolour wash. On cream wove paper with partial J Whatman watermark. Boitard is known to have worked on both laid and wove paper (see drawings in the collection of the Yale Centre for British Art).Laid down on a card wash line mount with window cut verso, and presented in a wash line window mount. Paper remnants at the corners on the verso of the drawing indicate that it was once corner mounted in an album.Provenance: Christies Old Master & British Drawings & Watercolours 2016.This is one of a collection of seven similarly mounted Boitard drawings we have for sale (auctioned at Christies in 2016). The drawings' mounts bear inscriptions indicating that they were all accessioned in the same collection.