With the artist’s estate stamp (verso)

Red chalk, 39.5 by 56.5 cm (15 ½ by 22 ¼ ins)

Provenance: the artist’s estate; David Messum

De Glehn was a close friend and associate of John Singer Sargent, who hired him as an assistant for his work on the murals at the Boston Public Library in 1891. He also appears as a sitter in a number of significant Sargent paintings, amongst them The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati (Art Institute of Chicago, Friends of American Art Collection (now on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). That work shows De Glehn and his American-born artist wife Jane Emmet. His training in Britain, France and America adds an international style to De Glehn’s painting which generally falls under the strong influence of Impressionism. The example of the Impressionists and Sargent are also evident in fluid, confident, studies and drawings like the present work.