(1830 Scarborough – Kensington 1896) Two studies of man for « Golden Hours » and « Orpheus and Eurydice » Black chalk and white chalk on blue paper 290 x 200 mm Inscribed with pencil : Golden hours 1864 Lord Frederic Leighton was one of the most influential and virtuosic artists of the Victorian era, a brilliant and stylistically adventurous painter…
Study of a young lady reading Red chalk heightened with white on buff paper Stamped lower left: Beurdeley collection (Lugt 421) 237 x 189 mm PROVENANCE: Beurdeley collection Pierre Chasselat was a pupil of Joseph-Marie Vien and was initially taught as a miniature painter. His first known miniature is of a lady in a…
Study of a Flower Gouache 390 x 267 mm Signed and dated lower left : fait d’après nature par/GV Spaendonck 1778 Our Study of a Flower, from the gillyflower family, is dated 1778, quite early within the artist’s oeuvre. It was in 1780 that he was named professor of flower painting at the Jardin du…
View of the Forum, with the columns of the temple of Vespasien Pen, brown ink and watercolor over pencil 14 3/8 x 21 ¼ in. (365 x 540 mm) Signed and dated: S Corrodi.fec. / Roma. 1845 Corrodi was a pupil of Wetzel and followed him on many of his trips to France, Germany…
(1743 Danemark 1809) The sun god Apollo entering the constellation of Cancer, emblematic of the summer solstice and The sun god Apollo entering the constellation of Capricorn, emblematic of the winter solstice Pen, ink and wash over graphite 220 x 145 et 230 x 165 mm Both inscribed: abilgaard One inscribed: 3732 and Korteste Dag The other inscribed 3731 and Laengste Dag…
(1725 Tournus – Paris 1805) L’amour dictant une lettre à une jeune fille Ink, wash and white gouache on blue paper 410 x 306 mm Circa 1765/70
(1665 – 1742) Pheasant Gouache and gold on vellum 330 x 460 mm Signed “Aubriet”, and inscribed 5′ lower right Provenance : Warren Howell, 1968 Gaston d’Orléans, the brother of King Louis XIII, an enthusiastic botanist, established a botanic garden at Blois where many rare plants were grown. The director of the gardens is thought…
(1715 Paris 1790) Léon freeing Roger from prison Red chalk over a red chalk counterproof 207 x 145 mm Titled, signed and dated : C.N. Cochin filius, delin, 1773 1773 Illustration for: Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, 1775-83, canto 45 Son of the engravers Charles-Nicolas Cochin I and Louise-Magdelaine Hortemels (1688-1767), Cochin le Jeune became his parents’ pupil.…
(1743 Bruges – Rome 1807) View of the aqueduct of Néron Sanguine 450 x 323 mm Around 1774 Bibliography : Sophie Join-Lambert and Anne Leclair, Joseph-Benoît Suvée, 1743 – 1807, un artiste entre Bruges, Rome et Paris, 2017, p. 302, n° D.181. A painter of portraits and history paintings, Suvée studied at the Academy of Bruges…
