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Attributed to Jean Guillaume Moitte
Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 GBP
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Description
- Jean Guillaume Moitte
- Bacchante with an infant faun
- Pen and brown ink and grey wash and white heightening, over traces of red chalk, within brown ink framing lines;
bears old attribution and date to a tab of paper adhered to the sheet, lower centre: Moitte Sculpteur 1779
Provenance
Possibly Charles Gasc (L.542);
with Alain Latreille, Paris, by 1990
with Alain Latreille, Paris, by 1990
Literature
R.J. Campbell, Jean-Guillaume Moitte: The Sculpture and Graphic Art, 1785-1799, PhD dissertation, Brown University, 1982, pp. 10, 243, no. 16, fig. 3, reproduced;
A.L. Clark et al., Mastery & Elegance, Two Centuries of French drawings from the collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (and Toronto, Paris, Edinburgh, New York and Los Angeles), 1998-2000, p. 424, no. A.236
A.L. Clark et al., Mastery & Elegance, Two Centuries of French drawings from the collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (and Toronto, Paris, Edinburgh, New York and Los Angeles), 1998-2000, p. 424, no. A.236
Condition
Hinge mounted. There are some old stains and abrasions to the four corners, most probably as a result of having previously been adhered to a separate sheet. There are some small losses of white heightening throughout and some very slight staining and areas of surface dirt. Otherwise in good condition, with the medium predominantly fresh throughout.
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NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."