Charles Michel-Ange Challe Paris 1718 - 1778

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

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Description

Charles Michel-Ange Challe
interior of the colosseum, with seated figures
signed, lower left: M Challe
black and white chalk and stumping on light brown paper

Provenance

Richard Wunder, his sale, London, Christie's, 7 July 1976, lot 31, reproduced

Exhibited

Vermont, Middlebury College, Architectural, Ornament, Landscape and Figure Drawings collected by Richard Wunder, 1975, no. 90, reproduced

Literature

Richard Wunder, 'Charles Michel-Ange Challe, A study of his Life and Work', in Apollo, no. 87, January 1968, pp. 22-33, fig. 3

Catalogue Note

In the Middlebury College catalogue of his collection, Richard Wunder writes that when Challe moved to Rome in 1742, he fell strongly under the influence of Piranesi, but nonetheless he continued to make drawings of Roman monuments in soft crayon in the manner of his teacher, Boucher. The Colosseum was a favourite subject and two similar studies, in the same medium and on the same paper, dated 1747, are known.¹

1. See Exhibited, op. cit., p. 59