Lot 97
  • 97

David Roberts, R.A.

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • David Roberts, R.A.
  • Study of Peasants at Alcala de Guadaira, Spain
  • Watercolor over pencil, heightened with touches of white;
    inscribed lower right: Alcala el Guadaira. 1833.

Provenance

Probably, London, Christie's, The Artist's Studio Sale, 15 May 1865, lot 319 (as A peasant with staff and boy), bt. Agnew's;
with Agnew's, London;
Sir John Pender (1816-1896),
his sale, London, Christie’s, 31 January 1873, lot 575;
with Michael Spratt, London, by 1978 (English 18th and 19th Century Watercolours and Drawings, 1978, no. 55);
sale, London, Sotheby's, 14 November 1996, lot 144,
where acquired by Bernadette and William M.B. Berger, Denver, Colorado

Catalogue Note

As Roberts’s inscription indicates, he encountered the people depicted in this drawing in the town of Alcala de Guadaira, which lies about ten kilometres south-east of Seville. Roberts visited this hilltop town in May 1833, when he made a number of drawings of its Moorish fortress, the streets and people. Another watercolor of peasants at Alcala de Guadaira was sold in these rooms on 9 November 1995, lot 129. We are grateful to Krystyna Matyjaskiewicz for her help when cataloguing this work.