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PROPERTY FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF PRINCE PONIATOWSKI (LOTS 11, 68, 88 AND 92)

Pierre Lélu (Paris 1741-1810)

Elegant figures in a garden at Cintra

Details

Pierre Lélu (Paris 1741-1810)
Elegant figures in a garden at Cintra
inscribed 'a Cintra'
black chalk, pen and black ink, grey wash
6 5/8 x 8½ in. (16.7 x 21.6 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Lélu visited Portugal around 1775. Other views of Cintra are in the Metropolitan Museum (J. Bean, 15th-18th Century French Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1986, no. 163), and in the Rijskmuseum, Amsterdam (formerly with Cailleux, exhib. cat., Rome 1760-1770. Fragonard, Hubert Robert et leurs amis, Paris, 1983, no. 42).

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