Lot 85
  • 85

JEAN BAPTISTE MARC ANTOINE DESCAMPS | An allegorical female figure asleep

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Jean Baptiste Marc Antoine Descamps
  • An allegorical female figure asleep
  • Red chalk;signed and dated in pen and brown ink, lower right:  Descamps fils. f. R. 1777.
  • 263 by 206 mm

Provenance

Philippe de Chennevières (L.2073);
Louis Deglatigny (L.1768a)

Condition

Laid down. Light staining around the edges of the sheet. Few creases in the paper in the upper section. Red chalk remains strong and vibrant. Sold unframed.
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Catalogue Note

The present sheet and the following lot may have been amongst the Chennevières drawings that were sold in Paris on 4-5 November 1937, possibly part of lot 92. 1. L-A Prat & L. Lhinares, La Collection Chennevières Quatre siècles de dessins français, Musée du Louvre, Paris 2007, p. 319, under no. 371