Sanguine Chalk Study of 'Hope'

drawing height: 139 cm
drawing width: 107 cm
frame height: 164 cm
frame width: 130 cm

Large Sanguine Chalk Study of 'Hope' (for the finished oil painting of 1885); composition and size identical to the finished picture; highlighted in white chalk; study of a seated female figure with musical instrument for the allegorical (symbolist) subject