Two costume designs for a bal masqué

Details

French School, 18th Century
Two costume designs for a bal masqué
Inscribed (?) 'Le Grand Seigneur Robert' (1) and 'Le Maitre a danser Robert' (2)
black chalk, pen and grey ink, grey and brown wash
7¾ x 4½ in. (11.4 x 19.7 cm.) and 6 7/8 x 3¾ in. (17.6 x 9.5 cm.)
Together with a German early 17th Century drawing of six designs for elaborate costumes
6 (3)

Provenance

W. Schatzki, 1969.
L. Houthakker, his mark (not in Lugt).

Literature

P. Fuhring, Design into Art: drawings for architecture and ornament, the Lodewijk Houthakker Collection, London, 1989, I, p. 427, no. 691, and II, p. 419, nos. 671-2

Exhibited

's-Hertogenbosch and Amsterdam, De achtergrond belicht. Ontwerpen voor het theater 1580-1850, 1976, nos. 101-2.

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Lot Essay

Similar to costumes designed for the famous bal masqué at Versailles in 1745, on the occasion of the wedding of the Dauphin to Marie-Thérèse of Spain.
An attribution to Paul-Ponce-Antoine Robert (1686-1733) should be considered.

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