Master Paintings and Drawings

Master Paintings and Drawings

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 260. An artist sketching under the porch of a rural stone building.

Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Sold Without Reserve

Pierre-Antoine Demachy

An artist sketching under the porch of a rural stone building

No reserve

Lot Closed

October 22, 04:59 PM GMT

Estimate

800 - 1,200 USD

Lot Details

Description

Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Sold Without Reserve

Pierre-Antoine Demachy

1723 - 1807

An artist sketching under the porch of a rural stone building


Pen and brown ink and colored washes, heightened with white

108 by 165 mm; 4¼ by 6½ in.

3

With Herbert E. Feist Gallery, New York;
with Shepherd Gallery, New York, by 1976,
where acquired by Muriel Butkin, Shaker Heights, OH

Sold together with:


Attributed to Jean-Pierre Norblin (1745-1830)

Two soldiers in a landscape

Pen and brown ink and gray washes;

bears old attribution, verso: Norblin de la Gourdaine and numbering: E/32

171 by 273 mm; 6 3/4 by 10 3/4 in.


Provenance:

With Galerie Fischer-Kiener, Paris, by 1986,

where acquired by Muriel Butkin, Shaker Heights, OH


French School, 18th Century

Three figures in a landscape

Point of the brush and brown wash over black chalk

248 by 172 mm; 9 3/4 by 6 3/4 in.


Provenance:

With J.H. Guttmann, New York, by 1974,

where acquired by Muriel Butkin, Shaker Heights, OH