Petanque Players in Brittany

Inscriptions

Signed lower right, in graphite: "1890- / CL"

Provenance

Josefowitz collection, by 1981 [Pope 1981]; sold, Christie's, Paris, May 23, 2007, lot 90, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

Exhibition history

Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," Mar. 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.

Publications

Karen Kristine Rechnitzer Pope, “Gauguin and Martinique,” unpublished dissertation, University of Texas (1981), p. 239, no. 9, as Joueurs de Boules.

Quick Overview

Artist: Charles Laval / French, 1862-1894
Date: 1890
Medium: Graphite on cream wove paper, laid down on off-white wove paper
Dimensions: Primary support: 27.2 × 41.2 cm (10 3/4 × 16 1/4 in.); Secondary support: 28 × 43 cm (11 1/16 × 16 15/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: prints and drawing
Place: France
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Accession no.: 2013.967

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.