Louis Gauffier (Poitiers or La Rochelle 1761-1801 Livorno)

Cornelia presenting her two young sons

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Louis Gauffier (Poitiers or La Rochelle 1761-1801 Livorno)
Cornelia presenting her two young sons
inscribed 'PUBLIO SCIPIO AFRICANUS CORNELIAE PATER.' and 'AEMILIANUS SCIPIO AFRICANUS ET NAUMANTIUNUS'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash heightened with white, watermark cartouche
13½ x 20 3/8 in. (345 x 522 mm.)

Provenance

Anon sale, Christie's New York, 22 May 1996, lot 10

Lot Essay

A picture by Gauffier of the same subject is at Fontainebleau and a number of his drawings are in the Musée Fabre in Montpellier (J. Vilain, Le Néo-Classicisme français, dessins des musées de province, exhib. cat., Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 1974, nos. 51-55).

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