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Bernard Picart
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3,000 - 3,500 GBP
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Description
- Bernard Picart
- an allegorical frontispiece, perhaps a reflection on human frailty
- Pen and black and grey ink and wash; indented, and blackened on the reverse for transfer
Catalogue Note
Stylistically similar, although more elaborate, drawings by Picart which are designs for an edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses, are in the Amsterdam Historical Museum.1
1. I. Oud and L. van Oosterzee, Nederlandse Tekenaars..., Amsterdam 1999, pp. 154-55, nos. 138, 139, reproduced