NICOLAS-BERNARD LÉPICIÉ (Paris 1735-1784 Paris) A Pair of Studies of Standing Customs Officials.
Both black chalk with touches of red chalk on brown laid paper, circa 1775. Both approximately 337x210 mm; 131/4x81/4 inches. Both signed in ink, lower right recto.
Both figures are studies for those in the center foreground of the artist's Interieur d'une Douane, oil, 1775, now in the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection.
