View of the Gulf of Mare Piano, south of Naples, with the village of Mare Piano beyond

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Louis-Jean Desprez (Auxerre 1743-1804 Stockholm)
View of the Gulf of Mare Piano, south of Naples, with the village of Mare Piano beyond
black chalk, pen and black ink, grey and blue-grey wash, watermark posthorn in a crowned cartouche above J HONIG & ZOONEN
8¾ x 13 in. (220 x 328 mm.)

Provenance

Marquis de Chennevières (L. 2072); Paris, 4-7 April 1900, lot 125 (122 francs).
Ray Livingstone Murphy, New York; Christie's, London, 12 December 1985, lot 184.

Literature

P. Lamers, Il viaggio nel Sud dell'Abbé de Saint-Non, Naples, 1995, p. 207-8, no. 186b.

Engraved

C.-L. Lingée for the Abbé de Saint-Non, Voyage pittoresque, ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicilie, 1783, II, pl. 72 (Lamers 186).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Drawn in preparation for an illustration to the Abbé de Saint-Non's Voyage pittoresque..., a collaborative project illustrated by a number of artists including Desprez, Fragonard and Robert with a descriptive text written by Baron Dominique Vivant-Denon and published in four volumes between 1781 and 1786. A plein-air study from which this finished drawing was worked up is in the Kunglig Akademien för de fria Konsterna, Stockholm (P. Lamers, op. cit., no. 186a).

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