

Study of a model , with hairband, circa 1900
Unmounted (ref: 6594)
Inscribed with inventory number, inscribed to reverse "by Belleroche, belong to W. de Belleroche"
Charcoal
13 x 8 1/8 in. (33 x 20.6 cm)
Provenance: Count William de Belleroche
Marx also fully acknowledged Belleroche's importance as painter-lithographer, writing in 1908: Belleroche holds a premier position in the current renaissance of lithography. No one since Eugene Carriere has equaled Belleroche's technique or his understanding of lithography. He is a master.... Indeed he is a painter-lithographer: he brings his subjects to life in moving light and shadows. His ink creates tones which reach the limits of the joyous and profound... His art, born in a daylight which is its own justification, is created from love." (Roger Marx, Peintres-lithographes Contemporains:Albert Belleroche Gazette des Beaux-Arts I, vol 39, 1908, p. 74).