Lot Essay
An attribution to Charles-Joseph Natoire (1700-1777) has been suggested.
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Figures admiring Roman ruins
Details
Circle of Giovanni Paolo Panini (Piacenza 1691-1765 Rome)
Figures admiring Roman ruins
with inscription 'Panini.'
black chalk, pen and brown and grey ink, watercolour, heightened with bodycolour, watermark Strasburg lily
17½ x 12 3/8 in. (443 x 333 mm.)
Figures admiring Roman ruins
with inscription 'Panini.'
black chalk, pen and brown and grey ink, watercolour, heightened with bodycolour, watermark Strasburg lily
17½ x 12 3/8 in. (443 x 333 mm.)
Provenance
Jean Mottinguer (according to an inscription on the old backing).
Peter Jay Sharp (1930-1992).
Peter Jay Sharp (1930-1992).
Exhibited
New York, National Academy of Design, European Master Drawings from the collection of Peter Jay Sharp, 1994, no. 23 (as Giovanni Paolo Panini, entry by L. Wolk Simon).
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