Lot 138
138
Jean-Baptiste Deshays de Coleville (1729-1765)
Jean-Baptiste Deshays de Coleville (1729-1765)

The Education of the Virgin

Details
Jean-Baptiste Deshays de Coleville (1729-1765)
Deshays, J.-B.
The Education of the Virgin
with inscription 'Deshayes' (verso)
black chalk, brown and gray wash on light brown paper, watermark Maltese Cross in a diamond(?)
13.1/8 x 9.5/8 in. (333 x 245 mm.)

Lot Essay

Similar in handling to a drawing sold at Christie's London, 6 July 1993, lot 141 and to another of Belisarius with P.& D. Colnaghi in 1987, no. 43. Deshays exhibited, at the 1761 salon, a picture of this subject, with only Saint Anne and the Virgin, M. Sandoz, Jean-Baptiste Deshays, 1729-1765, Paris, 1977, no. 64, fig. 28.