Jean-Baptiste MALEZIEUX dit PATIOT (Nauroy Aisne 1818 - 1906 - Lot 97

Jean-Baptiste MALEZIEUX dit PATIOT (Nauroy Aisne 1818 - 1906) / Original youth drawing in pencil on large paper, signed lower right, made at the time of his studies at the Ecole royale de dessin Maurice Quentin de La Tour de Saint-Quentin (Aisne): "1ère tête d'après le tableau - fait en 5 heures" (46.5 x 60.5 cm) [This free school, founded in 1782 by the famous pastellist, was intended to awaken the artistic sense in young people, particularly those destined for the mechanical arts of textiles, a specialty of the region, Jean-Baptiste, from a family of weavers, began classes in 1832 and for 5 years received the most prestigious prizes and awards at the school, enabling him to enter the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1837 and become a pupil of history painter François-Edouard Picot, himself a pupil of David].