Three figures playing cards, with other figure studies

Details

Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (Lyon 1736-1810)
Three figures playing cards, with other figure studies
black lead, pen and brown ink, grey wash, fragmentary watermark crowned coat-of-arms
4¾ x 7½ in. (120 x 191 mm.)

Provenance

Baron de Malaussena (L. 1887), with number '660'.

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Lot Essay

Marie-Félicie Perez kindly confirmed the attribution to Jean-Jacques de Boissieu on the basis of a photograph, and added that there are similar drawings of figures in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, at Dresden and at Darmstadt.

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