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The following three lots are all designs for the engraved titleplates which prefaced each of the sixteeen cahiers in which the hundred plates of Charles Percier (1764-1838) and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine's (1762-1853) Palais, Maisons, et Autres Édifices Modernes Dessinés à Rome (Paris, 1798) are arranged.

CHARLES PERCIER (FRENCH, 1764-1838)

Antique fragments from the ruins of Rome

Details

CHARLES PERCIER (FRENCH, 1764-1838)
Antique fragments from the ruins of Rome
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour
9½ x 6¼ in. (24.1 x 15.9 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's London, 26 April 1990, lot 388.

Literature

Charles Percier and Pierre Francois Léonard Fontaine, Palais, Maisons, et autres edifices modernes dessinés à Rome, 1798, plate 62.
C.Plante, Inside Out: Historic Watercolour Drawings, Oil sketches and Paintings of Interiors and Exteriors 1770-1870, London, 2000, no.11.

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