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Lot Essay
A page from a now dismembered album of studies, assembled by the artist to build up a stock of figure studies to be used in his pictures, C. Boutot and J.P. Cuzin, J.H. Fragonard et H. Rober a Roma, exhib. cat., Villa Medici, Rome, no. 84. Another page, now at Lille, displays six similar figure studies all cut irregularly and laid down, overlapping each other, in the same way, S. Raux, Catalogue des Dessins Franais du XVIIIe Sicle, exhib. cat., Lille, Palais des Beaux, Paris, 1995, no. 63.
The title page to that album may be that in Edinburgh, the National Galleries of Scotland, bearing the inscription 'Racolta di varie figure designate dal vero a campo Vaccino 1760 .1.2.3. R.i'. One of the figures on the present drawing, the man pushing a column at the lower left, can be found on a drawing at the Louvre (Inv. RF 14794) and in a picture, Le Port de Ripetta, painted in 1761 for the Duc de Choiseul. It occurs as well in Le Temple romain en ruines, now at the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, dated 1764.
The title page to that album may be that in Edinburgh, the National Galleries of Scotland, bearing the inscription 'Racolta di varie figure designate dal vero a campo Vaccino 1760 .1.2.3. R.i'. One of the figures on the present drawing, the man pushing a column at the lower left, can be found on a drawing at the Louvre (Inv. RF 14794) and in a picture, Le Port de Ripetta, painted in 1761 for the Duc de Choiseul. It occurs as well in Le Temple romain en ruines, now at the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, dated 1764.