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Preparatory work for the genre picture Falling Leaves

An Elderly Soldier 1895

Seated full-length in three-quarter profile to the left, wearing a brown jacket, navy blue trousers and a grey military greatcoat, holding a stick and cap in his right hand

Pastel on cardboard, 63.5 x 40.7 cm (25 x 16 in.)

Inscribed verso: 28 [ink]

Inscribed verso top left: Laura [pencil]

Studio Inventory, p. 145 (28): A Further Study of an old man in uniform

Private Collection

Falling Leaves (1895) was inspired by a poem by János Arany and depicts an old soldier seated on a park bench at a table in an almost identical pose as this preparatory work. Two other preparatory works of similar composition are [13571] and [111908].

For a full description of Falling Leaves, see [10672].

BS 2013