Charles-François de La Traverse (1726-c.1780)

A Ruler crowned by Love pointing to a Figure of Fertility holding a Child, in the foreground a figure of Fertility with children and an Allegory of Time

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Charles-François de La Traverse (1726-c.1780)
A Ruler crowned by Love pointing to a Figure of Fertility holding a Child, in the foreground a figure of Fertility with children and an Allegory of Time
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
416 x 578 mm.

Lot Essay

Large groups of drawings by La Traverse are in Besançon (M.L. Cornillot, Collection Pierre-Adrien Pâris, Besançon, Paris, 1957, nos. 96-105) and in the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, M. Sandoz, A Group of Drawings by Charles de La Traverse in the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Master Drawings, 1972, X, pp. 378-381, pls. 43-53.

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