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Follower of Charles Le Brun
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description
- Follower of Charles Le Brun
- design for a frontispiece with minerva, hercules and other gods and allegorical figures
- Pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white, over traces of black chalk, within brown ink framing lines
Provenance
John Thane (L.1544);
Sir Thomas Lawrence (L.2445);
with Louis Meier, London, from whom purchased, circa 1955
Sir Thomas Lawrence (L.2445);
with Louis Meier, London, from whom purchased, circa 1955
Exhibited
Newcastle, 1960, no. 21 (as Alessandro Gherardini);
Newcastle, 1964, no. 58 (as Alesssandro Gherardini)
Newcastle, 1964, no. 58 (as Alesssandro Gherardini)
Catalogue Note
Although Ralph Holland noted that there was an attribution to Alessandro Gherardini on the old mount and Nicholas Turner later proposed it could be by Pietro de'Pietri, this drawing seems rather to be by a French artist in the circle of Lebrun.