French School, circa 1780

Details

French School, circa 1780

A Triumphal Arch: front and side Elevation

inscribed 'Elévation Biaise de la porte de ville, suivant les lignes A.B.', numbered '35' (1) and 'Elévation de face de la porte triomphale du côté de la ville', 'Pro Patria Regi', numbered '31' (2); pen and black ink, grey wash, fragmentary watermarks coat-of-arms
298 x 405mm. and 265 x 316mm. two on one mount (2)

Provenance

Bruno de Bayser, 1968

Literature

P. Fuhring, nos. 808-9

Exhibited

Oberlin, The Allen Memorial Art Museum, A New World. Neo-Classical Drawings from the Collection of Lodewijk Houthakker, 1986, no. 51 and 51

Lot Essay

The present drawing appears to have been done as an academic exercise and Peter Fuhring suggests that its royalist imagery may relate it to the February 1779 Prix d'Emulation of the Académie Royale d'Architecture in Paris to design a porte de la ville élevée à la gloire du Roy