Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (1736-1810)

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Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (1736-1810)

The Trunk of a blasted Tree

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash, fragmentary watermark encircled coat-of-arms
251 x 177mm.

Provenance

Nicos Dhikeos (his mark, not in Lugt).

Lot Essay

The present drawing is comparable in subject and technique to studies of trunks in the Louvre, J.F. Méjanes in Le paysage en Europe du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle, exhib. cat., Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1990, no. 157, illustrated.

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