OCTAVE TASSAERT (PARIS 1800-1874) Standing nude with arms raised. Black stone, white and gouache highlights on blue-gray paper. Cut corners. 31.6 x 22.8 cm. To be compared with the lower left female figure, left arm raised, for Octave Tassaert's painting Le Ciel et l'Enfer, dated 1850, in the Musée Fabre, Montpellier, from the former Alfred Bruyas collection.