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CHARLES MAURIN Magasins de Louvre. Color pastels and conté crayon on cream wove paper, 1890-95. 482x609 mm; 19x24 inches. Signed and titled in pencil, lower right recto. Provenance: Lucien Goldschmidt, Inc., New York; private collection, New York. Maurin (1856-1914) was born in Le Puy-en-Velay, France. He studied painting and engraving at the renowned École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Maurin was close friends with the preeminent French art dealer and collector, Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939), as well as artist Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). This drawing depicts a late 19th century Parisian street scene, with people crowding the entrance of the Louvre department store on the corner of Rue St. Honoré.