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Jean-Jacques de Boissieu
LYON 1736 - 1810
STUDY OF A CLUMP OF TREES
Pen and brown ink and gray and brown wash over black chalk;
signed in pen and gray ink, lower left: Boissieu
170 by 214 mm; 6 3/4 by 8 3/8 in
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signed in pen and gray ink, lower left: Boissieu
170 by 214 mm; 6 3/4 by 8 3/8 in
Catalogue Note
De Boissieu was a prolific printmaker, producing numerous reproductive engravings, predominantly after works by 17th century Dutch masters, and also a number of original, freely executed etchings. He was also a fine draughtsman and most of his surviving drawings are highly atmospheric landscapes.
The present study of a group of trees is wonderfully expressive and free and can be stylistically compared to another drawing, The Trunk of a blasted Tree, sold at Christie’s in 1996.1
1. Sale, London, Christie’s, 2 July 1996, lot 274
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