Lot Essay
Façades of buildings were used as enclosures for the tourney grounds of tournaments or jousts. The style of architecture would suggest that this is by a Spanish hand
Details
Spanish School, 17th Century
A Façade of a Palace of with an Eagle and a Fleur-de-Lys on the Cornices
black chalk, pen and black ink, watercolor, watermark Maltese Cross
268 x 504mm.
A Façade of a Palace of with an Eagle and a Fleur-de-Lys on the Cornices
black chalk, pen and black ink, watercolor, watermark Maltese Cross
268 x 504mm.
Provenance
Kurt Meissner, 1974
Literature
P. Fuhring, no. 984 (as Italian School, 17th Century)