Master Paintings and Drawings
Master Paintings and Drawings
Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Sold Without Reserve
Alfred de Dreux
Two beagles
No reserve
Lot Closed
October 22, 05:09 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
Alfred de Dreux
1810 - 1860
Two beagles
Watercolor over pencil;
signed in brown ink, lower right: Alfred dedreux
bears numbering in brown ink, verso: 2622
220 by 329 mm; 8⅝ by 13 in.
3
Sold together with two other drawings of dogs:
French School, 18th Century
Recto: Sleeping dog; Verso: Studies of a woman
Red chalk (recto and verso)
195 by 233 mm; 7 3/4 by 9 1/4 in.
Provenance:
With Leigh Underhill Gallery, London, by 1988,
where acquired by Muriel Butkin, Shaker Heights, OH
French School, 19th Century
A dog seated at a table, opposite a letter and ink pot
Pen and brown ink, within octagonal brown ink framing lines;
the letter inscribed in brown ink: Madame / Madame Argenvilliere / a fr. Martin(?)
214 by 230 mm; 8 1/2 by 9 in.