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HUBERT-FRANÇOIS GRAVELOT | Designs for a vignette: A) Final design B) Sketch

Lot Closed

September 20, 02:41 PM GMT

Estimate

800 - 1,200 GBP

Lot Details

Description

HUBERT-FRANÇOIS GRAVELOT

Paris 1699 - 1773

Designs for a vignette:

A) Final design

B) Sketch


A) Pen and grey ink on oiled paper, indented for transfer with black chalk

B) Pen and brown ink over black chalk, indented for transfer with a metalpoint

A) 54 by 74 mm B) 51 by 72 mm (drawing)

348 by 495 mm (both drawings displayed in one mount)

(3)


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With P. & D Colnaghi 1968;

Lodewijk Houthakker (L.3893) 

P. Fuhring, Design into Art: Drawings for Architecture and Ornament The Lodewijk Houthakker Collection, 2 Vols, London 1989, vol I, p. 126, nos. 74a and 74b, both reproduced

Sold together with:


Giovanni Battista Cipriani

Two motifs representing Painting and Sculpture 

Pen and brown ink

60 by 188 mm (drawing)

498 by 349 mm (mount)

Provenance: Lodewijk Houthakker (L.3893)

Literature: P. Fuhring, op.cit., no. 195