An extensive landscape with fishermen and travellers on a bridge, a town in the background

細節

Nicolas-Charles Silvestre (Versailles 1699-1767 Vermenton)
An extensive landscape with fishermen and travellers on a bridge, a town in the background
with inscription 'Silvestre' on the mount
red chalk
10¼ x 16¼ in. (263 x 414 mm.)

來源

M. Paignon Dijonval, by descent to
M. Morel de Vindé.
Galerie Cailleux, their mark (not in Lugt).

出版

M. Bénard, Cabinet de M. Paignon Dijonval, état détaillé et raisonné des dessins et estampes dont il est composé, Paris, 1810, part of no. 3161 (as Louis Silvestre, 'autre paysage: on voit des pêcheurs près d'un pont: à la sanguine sur papier blanc; L. 16 po[ouces]. sur 10. po[ouces].').

注意事項

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拍品專文

Nicolas-Charles was the grandson of Israel Silvestre. According to Pierre-Jean Mariette he was a distinguished amateur, joining the Academy in 1747 as a landscape painter. In 1717 he was appointed drawing master to the young King Louis XV and in 1738 to the royal children. In 1984 the Louvre acquired an album of 128 drawings by the Silvestre family, 72 of which are by Charles-Nicolas (M.-T. Gugot, Acquisitions 1984-9, exhib. cat., Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1990, nos. 102-3). Other drawings by Silvestre were in the Woodner Collection, sold in these Rooms, 2 July 1991, lot 148 and another at Christie's New York, 15 January 1992, lot 89.