Property from an Important Private Collection
Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich
Study of a Tree
No reserve
Auction Closed
July 3, 03:27 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private Collection
Christian Willem Ernst Dietrich
Weimar 1712–1774 Dresden
Study of a Tree
traces of a signature in pen and brown ink: Dietrich
red chalk
221 by 313 mm
Alliance des Arts (L.61);
Private collection, Paris,
sale, Paris, Christie's, 1 April 2011, lot 64,
where acquired by the present owner
A. Ananoff, L'oeuvre dessinée de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806). Catalogue raisonné, Paris 1961-70, II, no. 963 (as J.-H. Fragonard)
The composition of the present work is also known through a red chalk drawing by Hubert Robert, which appeared on the London art market in 2001, and is now in the collection of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham.1
1 Inv. 2007.1; sale, London, Christie's, 10 July 2001, lot 114