Lot Essay
Intended to illustrate Delafosse's Nouvelle iconologie historique, ou Attributs hiéroglyphiques [...], Paris, 1768, these two drawings were never engraved.
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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
Jean-Charles Delafosse (Paris 1734-1789)
Designs for two trophies and a cartouche; and Another drawing of the same subject
Details
Jean-Charles Delafosse (Paris 1734-1789)
Designs for two trophies and a cartouche; and Another drawing of the same subject
both signed 'J. C. delafosse' and titled 'Cour des Monnoyes' and numbered '201' (1) and 'Litalie/Et/La religion' (2)
pencil, pen and black ink, grey wash, watermark fleur-de-lys in an escutcheon
14 x 7 7/8 in. (35.6 x 20 cm.)
(2)a pair
Designs for two trophies and a cartouche; and Another drawing of the same subject
both signed 'J. C. delafosse' and titled 'Cour des Monnoyes' and numbered '201' (1) and 'Litalie/Et/La religion' (2)
pencil, pen and black ink, grey wash, watermark fleur-de-lys in an escutcheon
14 x 7 7/8 in. (35.6 x 20 cm.)
(2)a pair
Provenance
Charles-Eugène Bérard; Paris, 21-25 November 1891, lot 107.
Sir Francis Watson, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Sir Francis Watson, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
P. Fuhring, Design into Art, Drawings for Architecture and Ornament, The Lodewijk Houthakker Collection, London, 1989, p. 129, under no. 81.
M. Myers, French Architectural and Ornament Drawings of the Eighteenth Century, exhib. cat., New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991, under no. 33.
M. Myers, French Architectural and Ornament Drawings of the Eighteenth Century, exhib. cat., New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991, under no. 33.
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