LAURENT DE BRUNHOFF. "Babar took them to see the

LAURENT DE BRUNHOFF."Babar took them to see the Cathedral of Notre Dame." Color study for the illustration in Babar's World Tour, (New York: Harry Abrams, 2005). Mixed media, including gouache, watercolor, pen and ink, over graphite. 235x220 mm; 9 1/4¾x8 1/2 inches, image, on larger sheet. Signed in full, lower left image. Archivally framed to 18x17 1/4 inches. Provenance: Mary Ryan Gallery; private collection, New York City.A now poignant scene of the famous pachyderm and his family gazing upon Notre Dame Cathedral from Pont Saint-Louis. This late-but-spirited volume in the Babar series takes its young viewers on an armchair tour of Italy, Germany, Russia, Japan, Thailand, Peru, Mexico, Egypt, Antarctica and other fabulous locales.