Angelica Kauffman, R.A. (1741-1807)

Silenus, Prisoner of the Shepherdesses, from Virgil's Eclogue

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Angelica Kauffman, R.A. (1741-1807)
Silenus, Prisoner of the Shepherdesses, from Virgil's Eclogue
inscribed 'Siléne se réveillant et priant les Bergeres de le délier et il leur promet de chasser les miseres voiés la sixieme Eglo: de Virg:'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash in an inscribed circle, fragmentary watermark fleur-de-lys in a cartouche
254 x 328 mm.

拍品專文

Comparable in handling to a drawing sold at Christie's, London, 9 July 1985, lot 109. The circluar format is one she uses in other drawings, such as one in the British Museum, W.W. Roworth, Angelica Kauffman, A Continental Artist in Georgian England, London, 1992, pl. 92.