AISNE - Jean-Baptiste MALEZIEUX dit PATIOT (Nauroy Aisne 181 - Lot 137

AISNE - Jean-Baptiste MALEZIEUX dit PATIOT (Nauroy Aisne 1818 - 1906) / Set of 5 original youthful pencil drawings, all signed (4 are approx. 30 x 46 cm, mounted on sheet 48 x 64 cm and 1 is 46 x 61 cm), these are academic studies of plaster busts, made during his studies at the Ecole royale de dessin Maurice Quentin de La Tour in Saint-Quentin, Aisne [This free school, founded in 1782 by the famous pastellist, was designed to awaken the artistic senses of young people, Jean-Baptiste, who came 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].