Attributed to Jean-Baptiste Deshays, called Deshays de Coleville (1729-1765)

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Attributed to Jean-Baptiste Deshays, called Deshays de Coleville (1729-1765)

An Allegory of a French Royal Marriage

with inscription 'dessin original de Paul Veronese dont le tableau est au Palais Pitti dans la salle des ...' and 'n°. 231.- f°-27. -' on the mount;black chalk, brush and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white
191 x 256mm.

Provenance

Loys Delteil; Paris, 21 February 1935, according to an inscription on the mount.
A. Tardieu (L. 183b).
Nicos Dhikeos (his mark, not in Lugt).

Lot Essay

This drawing is very similar in handling to The Abduction of Oreithyia, formerly in the Mariette collection, now in the Kunsthaus Helshof in Worms, W. Vitzthum, Drawings at Worms, Master Drawings, 1965, III, p. 258, pl. 17b.

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