Charles Haslewood Shannon, RA, British 1863-1937- Studies of a seated woman reading, in different positions; black, red and white chalk on paper, signed with initials and dated 'C.H.S. 95' (lower right), 36.5 x 51.4 cm. Provenance: With Peter Nahum Ltd, London [no.169].; Where purchased by the present owner. Exhibited: London, J.S. Maas & Co., 'Pre-Raphaelites and their Contemporaries', 1961, no.94.; London, J.S. Maas & Co., 'Pre-Raphaelites to Post-Impressionists', 1965. Note: The woman’s full skirted and sleeved dresses in the present work correspond, not with the contemporary fashions of the 1890s, but with the Pre-Raphaelite clothing of the earlier mid-Victorian years of around the 1860s. It echoes in particular Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s drawings of Elizabeth Siddal, which Shannon so admired. The drawing further pays homage to Antoine Watteau, most strikingly in its three-colour chalk technique as well as in its delicateposition. Indeed, the [Charles] Ricketts and Shannon Collection, today principally housed in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, contained at least five drawings by Watteau, attesting to Shannon's interest in and admiration for the earlier French painter and draughtsman.Please refer to department for condition report