The Nave of the Cathedral at Monreale, Sicily, looking West, with a traveller in the foreground; and The Nave of the Cathedral at Monreale, Sicily, looking towards the Apse

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JOSEPH-FRÉDÉRIC DEBACQ (1800-1892)
The Nave of the Cathedral at Monreale, Sicily, looking West, with a traveller in the foreground; and The Nave of the Cathedral at Monreale, Sicily, looking towards the Apse
The first inscribed 'Cathedrale de Monreale près de Palerme' (verso) and further inscribed 'Cathedrale de Monreale près Palerme.' (on the album sheet onto which the drawing was pasted); the second inscribed 'Cathedrale de Monreale près de Palerme' (verso) and further inscribed 'Cathedrale de Monreale près Palerme.' (on the album sheet onto which the drawing was pasted).
pencil, pen and brown ink, brown wash on paper
the first 7 7⁄8 x 12 3⁄8 in. (19.7 x 31.5 cm.); the second 9 3⁄8 x 11 1⁄8 in. (23.8 x 28.3 cm.)(2)

Provenance

From an album of landscape drawings by both Joseph-Frédéric Debacq and the Duc de Luynes, made during a voyage from France to southern Italy in 1828, both stamped with the mark 'FD' in a double circle (probably a Debacq Studio stamp, not in Lugt).
Anonymous sale; Aguttes, Neuilly-sur-Seine, 13 June 2019, lots 121 & 122.
Acquired at the above sale.

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Lot Essay

These two drawings originally belonged to an album of pen-and-wash landscapes and architectural views by Debacq and Honoré d'Albert, duc de Luynes (1802-1867), created during their 1828 journey through Italy. Beginning in Savoy in southern France, they crossed the Alps and travelled to Piacenza, Rimini, Fano and Narni to Rome, before continuing to Naples, Pompeii, Paestum, Calabria and Sicily, where they visited Taormina, Syracuse, Agrigento, Selinunte, Segesta, Palermo and Monreale.

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