Louis Chaix* (c. 1740-1811?)

Details
Louis Chaix* (c. 1740-1811?)

A Fountain in the Gardens of the Villa Ludovisi, Frascati, with two figures

inscribed 'villa Ludovisi'; red chalk, watermark C above encircled fleur-de-lys
20¼ x 15 3/8in. (515 x 390mm.)
Provenance
L. Deglatigny (L. 1768a)

Lot Essay

Comparable landscapes by Chaix are at Berlin, E. Berckenhagen, Die Französischen Zeichnungen der Kunstbibliothek, Berlin, 1970, pp. 393-7, nos. Hdz 3026-74, illustrated. Chaix was an artist from Marseilles who worked in Rome in the early 1770s