Alfred DEHODENCQ (1822-1882) : - Lot 101

Alfred DEHODENCQ (1822-1882) : THE CHECKER IN CHARLOTTE CORDAY'S ARRESTATION. Ink and ink wash, stamped in red ink lower right, annotated in pencil XXXII 15 upper right, titled on the back, with the mention Musée du Louvre. Sight: 18 x 14.5 cm. SET OF DRAWINGS BY ALFRED DEHODENCQ A student of Léon Cogniet at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Alfred Dehodencq made his debut at the 1844 Salon. His first compositions are mainly religious paintings, in which his taste for drama and movement is to be found. Wounded during the 1848 Revolution, he leaves for the Pyrenees to convalesce, continues his journey in Spain, then settles in Morocco from 1853 to 1863. It is the revelation of a teeming world that he renders in his paintings where the subjects are violent, the characters agitated. Our set of drawings testifies to this journey, in particular the studies for his painting The arrest of Charlotte Corday, after the murder of Marat (1853), now on deposit at the Museum of the French Revolution in Vizille.