Lot Essay
A print of the Seine at Pontoise after Moreau l'Aîné reproduces the same bridge as the one in the present drawing, G. Wildenstein, Louis Moreau, Paris, 1923, no. 41, pl. 20.
Details
Jean-Baptiste Debret*(French, 1768-1848)
Three Ladies and a Child under the Shade of Poplars, on a riverbank of the Seine in Pontoise
black lead, pen and brown ink, brown wash on paper
10½ x 7¼in. (268 x 184mm.)
Three Ladies and a Child under the Shade of Poplars, on a riverbank of the Seine in Pontoise
black lead, pen and brown ink, brown wash on paper
10½ x 7¼in. (268 x 184mm.)
Provenance
From an album assembled by Madame Jacques-Félix Duban (1797-1871), born Debret, to her nephew, Paul Duvivier de Streel, and thence by descent to the present owner.