AISNE - Jean-Baptiste MALEZIEUX dit PATIOT (Nauroy Aisne 181 - Lot 139

AISNE - Jean-Baptiste MALEZIEUX dit PATIOT (Nauroy Aisne 1818 - 1906) / Set of 4 original youthful pencil drawings on large paper (2 are 47 x 55 cm and 2 are 46 x 62 cm, a tear on 1, chips on the sides, soiling), all 4 are signed lower right, 1 is dated 1833, made during his studies at the Maurice Quentin de La Tour Royal School of Drawing in Saint-Quentin, Aisne [This free school, founded in 1782 by the famous pastellist, was intended to awaken the artistic sense in 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].