Henri LEHMANN (Kiel 1814 – Paris 1882) Portrait of Paul Joubert Three pencil drawings. Signed lower left: “To / Madame Joubert / Henri Lehmann / 1849. Sept. 11.” (Sun-faded; lower left corner missing). 28 x 20.5 cm Provenance: From the artist’s family collection and held in a private collection in Paris, according to Marie-Madeleine Aubrun. Bibliography: Marie-Madeleine Aubrun, Henri Lehmann 1814–1882, Catalogue Raisonné of the Work, Nantes, Association Les Amis de Henri Lehmann, 1984, Vol. 1, p. 63, D.41. Exhibition: 1983, Paris, Musée Carnavalet, Henri Lehmann, 1814–1882: Portraits and Parisian Scenes, no. 39. Drawing mentioned in the ledger in September 1849, fol. 24, with the note: “For his mother” (see: Marie-Madeleine Aubrun, see work cited above, Vol. 1, p. 63, D.41). Paul Joubert was the brother of Edmond Joubert, the son-in-law of Madame Henri Lehmann. He was also both the first cousin and the brother-in-law of Jeanine Joubert, who had married her first cousin Edmond.