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Lot 59
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Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 GBP
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Description

  • Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros
  • A landscape with the Ponte Molle, Rome
  • Watercolour;
    signed and dated in pen and brown ink, across the tree trunk, lower right: Ducros. Roma. / 1785

Catalogue Note

This is a fine example of one of Ducros' large watercolours which were conceived as full-scale decorative works to rival oil paintings.  Most of these grand compositions were executed between 1784 and 1806; the present landscape is signed and dated by the artist 1785.