Lot 212
  • 212

Attributed to Hubert François Bourguignon, known as Gravelot

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • Attributed to Hubert François Bourguignon, known as Gravelot
  • Two Drawings for Jacques Vanière's Praedium Rusticum and Three Studies of a Man in a Tricorne Hat: Three Drawings
  • the first: pen and ink with wash and gouache on paper
    the second: pencil on paper
    the third: black chalk on laid paper
  • the first: 4 5/8 by 3 in.; 11.7 by 7.6 cm
  • the second: 3 5/8 by 2 1/2 in.; 9.2 by 6.3 cm; the third: 3 5/8 by 3 1/8 in.; 9.2 by 7.9 cm

Provenance

Three Studies of a Man in a Tricorne Hat: John Fleming
Two Drawings for Jacques Vanière's 
Praedium Rusticum: Marquis de Fourquevaux
Emmanuel Boucher
Louis Roederer

Condition

Three Studies of a Man in a Tricorne Hat: Black chalk on laid paper. Not examined our of the frame. The work is float mounted and the unevenly trimmed edges are visible. There is rippling to the sheet from handling and mounting. Surface dirt and dust. There is a hard horizontal crease or repaired tear extending 1/4 inch into the work at the upper left edge. Ready to hang. Jacques Vanière's Praedium Rusticum, pen and ink with wash and gouache on paper: Not examined our of the frame. The work is float mounted and the edges are visible. There is rippling to the sheet from handling and mounting. Surface dirt and dust. Staining along the upper right edge. Ready to hang. Jacques Vanière's Praedium Rusticum, pencil on paper: Not examined our of the frame. The work is float mounted and the edges are visible. There is rippling to the sheet from handling and mounting. Surface dirt and dust. There is a nick to the sheet at lower right. The upper right corner has been repaired. Scattered foxing with two darker spots in the legs of the standing woman. Ready to hang.
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