Jean-Baptiste Le Paon (1736/8-1785)
Jean-Baptiste Le Paon (1736/8-1785)

French artillery approaching a besieged town in the Low Countries

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Jean-Baptiste Le Paon (1736/8-1785)
French artillery approaching a besieged town in the Low Countries
signed and dated 'Le Pan. 1780.'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, two shades of brown wash on light brown paper
373 x 529 mm.

Lot Essay

Two comparable battle drawings by Le Paon are in the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, H. Loilier, Dessins du XVIIIe sicle, exhib. cat, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, nos. 24-5. The drawings depict the Battle of Nordlingen of 1649 and the Battle of Fribourg of 1644, and are related to pictures commissioned for the Palais Bourbon.

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