Charles-Louis-Lucien Müller (Paris 1815-1892 Paris)
A Seated Female Nude
Red Chalk Heightened With White, With Some Black Chalk Notations, On Light Blue Paper, Watermark ‘MICHALLET’ And Initials
620 X 460 Mm. (24 3/8 X 18 1/8 In.)
SOLD
Provenance :
Henry Strachy.
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.
