Johann Georg Grassmair (1690-1751)
A nude woman seen from behind
black and white chalk on blue paper, the right margin partly made up, watermark AL
21 7/8 x 14 in. (555 x 360 mm.)
Provenance
Duc de Talleyrand.
Literature
A. Morassi, Dessins vénitiens du dix-huitième siècle de la collection du Duc de Talleyrand, Milan, 1958, no. 4.
Exhibited
Zürich, Schönheit des 18. Jahrhunderts, 1955, no. 244.
Lot Essay
Two similiar drawings signed by Grassmair were sold in Munich, 13-14 October 1938, lots 329-30, pl. 44, and another of similar size at Christie's New York, 30 January 1998, lot 398.
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