Isaac de Moucheron (1667-1744)

A classical landscape with a sacrifice offered to Pan in the ruins of a temple

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Isaac de Moucheron (1667-1744)
A classical landscape with a sacrifice offered to Pan in the ruins of a temple
black lead, pen and grey and brown ink, grey and light brown wash, grey ink framing lines
96 x 13.3/8 in. (240 x 340 mm.)

Lot Essay

Related to two drawings of virtually the same composition, one sold at Christie's London, 21 November 1967, lot 134 and the other in the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin, N. Wedde, Isaac de Moucheron, Frankfurt, 1996, nos. D136-7, the second pl. 63. The former shows a goddess instead of a herm and the latter is signed. The Berlin drawing is dated by Nina Wedde to the 1710-20s.

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