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| Jean-Léon Gérôme Mademoiselle Rachel (study for painting La Tragédie) 1859 drawing Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
RACHEL – a great French tragédienne, born in Switzerland, of Jewish parents; made her début in Paris in 1838, and soon became famous as the interpreter of Racine and Corneille, her crowning triumph being the representation, in 1843, of Phèdre in the tragedy of Racine; she made a great impression wherever she appeared, realised a large fortune, a died of decline (1821-1858).
– James Wood, The Nuttall Encyclopaedia (London: Frederick Warne, 1907)
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| Théodore Valério Study for Beggar Woman of Brittany 1868 drawing (print study) Musée du Louvre |
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| Auguste Rodin Bust of Madame Vicumba 1888 drawing Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Constantin Meunier Two Figures pulling a Heavy Load 1892 drawing Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Léon-Augustin Lhermitte Harvester Resting ca. 1880 drawing (study for painting) Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Louis Chalons Figure Study for The Death of Agamemnon ca. 1886 drawing (study for painting) Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Louis Chalons Figure Study for The Death of Agamemnon ca. 1886 drawing (study for painting) Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Victor-François-Eloi Biennourry Personification of the Tiber ca. 1860-61 drawing (study for painting) Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux Figure Studies (after Michelangelo's Last Judgment) ca. 1855-60 drawing Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux Head Study (after Raphael's tapestry cartoon, The Death of Ananias) ca. 1870 drawing Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux Heads of Day and Dusk (after Michelangelo's sculptures, Medici Tombs, Florence) ca. 1862-64 drawing Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Antoine-Alphonse Montfort after Michelangelo Reclining Figure 1849 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Antoine-Alphonse Montfort after Michelangelo Seated Figure 1849 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Théodore Rousseau Landscape with Group of Trees before 1867 drawing, with watercolor Musée du Louvre |
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| Maxime Lalanne Wooded Scene ca. 1850-80 drawing Musée d'Orsay, Paris |