A. A. LEJEUNE (ACTIVE LATE 18TH CENTURY)

Lot 83
04.02.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1361000
Lot 83 | A. A. LEJEUNE (ACTIVE LATE 18TH CENTURY)
Estimate value
$ 10 000 – 15 000
A. A. LEJEUNE (ACTIVE LATE 18TH CENTURY)
A trompe l'oeil of assignats and other revolutionary papers
signed and dated 'Dessiné et écrit à la plume, d'après les Originaux,/ Par A.A. Lejeune, ce 8 Juillet 1796.' (lower right)
pen and brown and black ink, bodycolor, heightened with white
32 x 21 ½ in. (81.2 x 54.5 cm)




Provenance

with Kline, Santa Fe.
Aurora Art Fund Collection, Santa Fe; Sotheby's, New York, 12 January 1990, lot 122.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 14 January 1992, lot 156.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 28 January 2000, lot 100.



Exhibited

New York, The Morgan Library and Museum, Words of Blood. Images of Fire. The French Revolution, 1989.
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