Galleria Portatile - Ralph Holland Coll.

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Lot 454
  • 454

French School, early 18th Century

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description

  • an allegory of the senses
  • Pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk, heightened with white, on grey paper;
    possibly indistinctly inscribed lower centre: ?Carlo Ma...

Provenance

Sale, London, Christie's, 28 March 1979, lot 223, reproduced (as French School, circa 1720), purchased by Ralph Holland

Catalogue Note

Ralph Holland proposed an attribution to Nicolas Bertin, but the style of his known drawings is somewhat different.  His suggestion, however, that this represents an allegory of the senses could explain the disparate groups of figures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

lain the rather disparate groups of figures.