Details
Circle of Jean-Michel Moreau, Moreau le Jeune (1741-1814)
Women crowning a Bust of Virtue
with inscription 'La Tendresse Eleva Ce Temple à la Vertu Le Respect y joignit son touchant ministère. en désirant quil soit a jamais reconnu la justice y placa la portrait de ma mere' on the mount; pen and black ink, watercolour
261 x 292mm.; and a watercolour of a church interior by another French hand (2)
Women crowning a Bust of Virtue
with inscription 'La Tendresse Eleva Ce Temple à la Vertu Le Respect y joignit son touchant ministère. en désirant quil soit a jamais reconnu la justice y placa la portrait de ma mere' on the mount; pen and black ink, watercolour
261 x 292mm.; and a watercolour of a church interior by another French hand (2)
Provenance
(1) Anon. sale, Christie's, 8 December 1987, lot 378, illustrated (£550).