Lot Essay
As Charles Dumas has kindly confirmed, the poem verso is in the artist's handwriting. He points out that the recto was presumably a design for a garden statue.
An Allegory of Love (?): two Cherubs on a Pedestal
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Jan Claudius de Cock (1668-1735)
An Allegory of Love (?): two Cherubs on a Pedestal
numbered 'No4' (recto); a fragmentary poem (verso)
pen and brown ink, grey wash
140 x 88 mm.
An Allegory of Love (?): two Cherubs on a Pedestal
numbered 'No4' (recto); a fragmentary poem (verso)
pen and brown ink, grey wash
140 x 88 mm.