Jean-Henri-Alexandre Pernet (Paris, circa 1763-1789)
OLD MASTER & 19TH CENTURY DRAWINGS FROM THE COLLECTION OF JERROLD AND JACKIE ZIFF (LOTS 983-1062)
Jean-Henri-Alexandre Pernet (Paris, circa 1763-1789)

A capriccio of classical ruins, with coffered archways and figures taking water from a fountain

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Jean-Henri-Alexandre Pernet (Paris, circa 1763-1789)
A capriccio of classical ruins, with coffered archways and figures taking water from a fountain
signed 'Pernet'
black chalk, pen and black ink, brown wash, heightened with white on paper, oval
13 1/8 x 11 3/8 in. (335 x 287 mm.)
Provenance
Schmitze-Hille, Switzerland.
with William H. Schab Gallery, New York.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 16 November 1972, lot 209.
with Agnew's, Ltd., London, where acquired by the current owner, 1975.
Literature
A. Ananoff, 'Les cent petits mâitres' qu'il faut connaître' in Connaissance des Arts, July 1964, p. 56, illus.
Exhibited
New York, William Schab Gallery, Master Drawings and Prints, 1500-1960, 1970, no. 145.

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