Lot 1556
SIR WILLIAM ORPEN, RA, HRHA (1878-1931)
MOTHER AND CHILD WITH A CRADLE
Signed, black and red chalk with pencil
16.5 x 21.5cm.
* A similar composition, but in reverse, entitled `By the Cradle` (21 x 27.5cm, 1903) is in the collection of Aberdeen Art Gallery. A larger study by Orpen, 27 x 36cm, with the same orientation as this lot, was sold at Adams of Dublin (September 7th 2011, lot 718), from the collection of the late Jill Cox.
