Charles-Louis-Lucien Müller (Paris 1815-1892 Paris)
A Seated Female Nude, holding onto an Urn
Red And Black Chalk Heightened With White, On Light Blue Paper, Watermark ‘MICHALLET’ And Initials
618 X 463 Mm. (24 3/8 X 18¼ In.)
SOLD TO A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
Provenance :
Henry Strachey.
Private Collection, England.
Müller was a student of Baron Gros and Léon Cogniet. He exhibited regularly at the Salon and was bestowed with numerous honours. He worked on four important paintings for the ceilings in the Musée du Louvre, representing the periods of art in France under Saint Louis, Francois Premier, Louis XIV and under Napoleon 1.
This type of figure was used in the fresco in the Salle Denon, Musée du Louvre, which Muller worked on between 1864-18651.
1.M. Nancy Devenport, Bulletin de la Société de l’histoire de l’art français, 1986, ‘Charles-Louis Müller et ses decorations peintures du Louvre’, pp.145-160.
