Lot 100
100
French School, late 18th Century

Details
French School, late 18th Century

A Statue of a Bacchante flanked by recessed Panel

pen and black ink, watercolour
315 x 518mm.
Provenance
Anon. sale, Drouot, Paris, 14 September 1968
Literature
P. Fuhring, no. 248
Exhibited
Oberlin, The Allen Memorial Art Museum, A New World. Neo-Classical Drawings from the Collection of Lodewijk Houthakker, 1986, no. 60

Lot Essay

The trophies of fruit and leaves decorating the vertical panels follow those of the Raphael Loggia in the Vatican, and the painted curtain may be inspired by the decorations of Pompei, thereby prompting Peter Fuhring to suggest a date of 1790-1800