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unpublished Carnet no. 56 (no illustration available) contains a study and perhaps a summary sketch related to the evolving composition of 1857 .

Interestingly, Robaut documents another charcoal drawing, Nymph Disarming Love ( R IV, 2885 , p. 65 , illus.) as also having been executed for Dutilleux in Arras in around 1857 . The latter, like the present drawing, is a souvenir of one of Corot’s 1857 Salon paintings ( Nymph Disarming Love , Musée d’Orsay). Corot’s visits to Arras in both 1856 and 1857 are documented, and it is possible that Robaut, who first met Corot in 1852 , witnessed the creation of these drawings.