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Marie-Gabrielle Capet

An Allegory of Poetry

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January 26, 04:31 PM GMT

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4,000 - 6,000 USD

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Marie-Gabrielle Capet

Lyon 1761 - 1818 Paris

An Allegory of Poetry 



Black chalk and stumping heightened with white chalk, squared in black chalk for transfer;

inscribed in pen and brown ink to the left: peint par vincent de l'inst./en 1811 and to the right: dessiné par Gabrielle Capet/ en 1811

204 by 337 mm; 8¼ by 13¼ in.

Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Binoche, 17 June 1983 (without catalogue)
J-P. Cuzin, Vincent, entre Fragonard et David, Paris 2013, p. 502, under no. 668P