Gustave DORÉ (Strasbourg 1832 - Paris 1883) Gypsy woman and her child Pen, brown ink, brown wash. Signed lower left. (Minor insolation, foxing). 20 x 13.5 cm Our work can be compared with a drawing by the artist Beggar Girl with Two Babies, 1869, pencil and charcoal, in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio; reproduced in Eric Zafran M. (ed.), Fantasy and Faith. The Art of Gustave Doré, New York, Dahesh Museum of Art/New Haven, Yale University Press, 2007, p. 102, fig. 136. It can also be compared with an oil on canvas by the artist, The Spanish Beggars, previously in the collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, whose whereabouts are unknown today; reproduced in op. cit. supra, p. 166.