Rhinocéros
India ink, pencil and gouache on Japan paper, signed lower right, annotated by the artist in the lower margin "harm(onized) black silver purple gray - jungle".
28.50 x 22 cm
Illustration project for Edouard Foa's book Mes grandes chasses dans l'Afrique centrale, Editions Visaphone, Paris, 1967.
Provenance :
Private collection, France
The first edition of this book by Edouard Foa was published in 1895.
In 1967, Editions Visaphone, as part of its Les classiques de la chasse collection, reissued the book with illustrations by Paul Jouve. The artist produced 8 full-page and color illustrations, as well as 7 in-text illustrations and the cover. This drawing is a draft for one of the off-text illustrations, between pp. 80 and 81 of the book.
Certificate of authenticity issued by Mr. Dominique Suisse, the artist's successor in title.