Pencil on cream wove paper, circa 1852. 312x188 mm; 12 3/8x7 3/8 inches. Signed and inscribed "Augustus" in pencil, right recto.
A studying for the standing male magistrate, in profile in a gold toga, to the right of the emperor in Gérôme's oil The Age of Augustus, the Birth of Christ, 1852-54, now at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
