AUBERT Louis (Paris 1720 1785): "Young boy with a bundle". Black stone, blush, pastel and white highlights (unstained). Signed and dated lower left in pen and brown ink Louis Aubert F. 1745. H. 28,4 W. 19,6 cm. On Louis Aubert, painter and musician, some of whose studies have been compared to those of J.B.S. Chardin, and whose works are preserved in the Cabinet des Dessins of the Louvre, the Albertina in Vienna and the Rijksmuseum, see Neil Jeffares, Dictionnary of pastellists before 1800, pp. 38 & 39 (London 2006).