Ambroise Détrez (Paris 1811, Valenciennes 1865) "Ploughing i - Lot 275

Ambroise Détrez (Paris 1811, Valenciennes 1865) "Ploughing in Artois" Large, handsome wash ink drawing, Signed lower left 31 x 20 (end-of-19° Canson paper cover sheet, 40 x 26), Annotated on reverse "Harpigny, Carpeaux ses amis à l'école des Beaux Arts de Valenciennes, Athènes du Nord" On the back of the drawing 3AD Dessin peinture" for work executed in oil on canvas. Drawing from the Deschamps de Pas collection, Saint-Omer. He exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1842, 1844 and 1848, with several of his works in national collections, including the portrait of student Docteur Paul Gachet in the Musée de Valenciennes and the Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple in the Musée des Beaux Arts, Lille.