A view of an Italian town

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François Le Moyne (1688-1737)
A view of an Italian town
with inscription 'lemoyne feci Roma'
red chalk, watermark grapes
246 x 375 mm.

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Lot Essay

By the same hand and size as a drawing in the Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, J.-L. Bordeaux, François Le Moyne and his Generation, Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1984, no. D57, fig. 185. The Berlin drawing was dated by Jean-Luc Bordeaux to Le Moyne's stay in Rome in 1724. It bears the characteristic inscription 'le moyne', probably written by the collector Berger, which is present on many Le Moyne drawings.

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