Sale 5775
London
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16 April 1997
Price realised
GBP 1,092
Estimate
Ferdinand Delamonce (1678-1753) The Virgin appearing to two Saints black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash, squared in black chalk, the upper corners cut 94 x 163 mm.
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Comparable in handling to a drawing by Delamonce in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, J. Bean and L. Turcic, 15th-18th Century French Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1986, no. 94, illustrated.
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