Rosette in the garden, a presumed portrait of Rose Renaud

Details

Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine (Rouen 1751-1824 Paris)
Rosette in the garden, a presumed portrait of Rose Renaud
signed 'dessiné par lemoine' on the mount and inscribed 'Rosette, Acte 1er, Scène 2eme, dans l'opera de la Buona Figliuola'
black chalk, stump and grey wash
530 x 425 mm.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 7 December 1976, lot 47.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 16 January 1986, lot 146 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. B-120).

Literature

N. Jeffares, 'Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine', La Gazette des Beaux-Arts, February 1999, no. 55.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

An illustration to Act I, scene 2 of La Cecchina, ossia La Buona Figliuola by Niccolò Piccinni (1728-1800), written in 1760 and based on an adaptation of Richardson's Pamela by Goldoni. Supposedly written in only eighteen days, the opera, a masterpiece of sentimental comedy, conquered Europe. The drawing is dated by Neil Jeffares to 1785.

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