Charles-Nicolas COCHIN fils (Paris, 1715 - 1790) Tribute to the memory of Mademoiselle Olivier (1764-1787), member of the Comédie-Française, 1787 Black pencil. Signed and dated lower center: "C.N. Cochin delin 1787". Annotated in pen "On this young olive tree, why do you grieve? It reminds my heart of the talents, the Virtue ". Diameter: 5,5 cm on a sheet of 6,8 cm of diameter Provenance: - Former collection of Count Jacques-Jean-Baptiste-Marie de Bryas (1851-1915); his sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Me Chevallier, April 4-6, 1898, no. 35 (sold for 100 francs to "de Jonghe"). - Former collection Salomon De Jonge (1844-1938), administrator of the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris; then Blanche De Jonge, his widow, New York; its sale, Me Baudoin, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, June 1-2, 1939, n° 25. - Former collection of Pierre Le-Tan (1950-2019), draftsman and collector. Bibliography: C. Michel, Charles-Nicolas Cochin et l'art des Lumières, Paris, 1993, p. 460, note 47. The young actress Mademoiselle Olivier, born in London in 1764, was one of the great hopes of the Comédie-Française, unfortunately taken too soon from life in 1787. Symbolized here by a broken olive tree, the man mourning her is probably one of her lovers, the actor Joseph-Jean-Baptiste Albouy, known as Dazincourt (1747-1809).