ID 1172946
Lot 52 | BERNARD PICART (PARIS 1673-1733 AMSTERDAM)
Estimate value
€ 2 000 – 3 000
Académie d’homme nu assis, vu de dos
signé ‘Picart fecit/ 24 mars 1725’ (en bas à droite) et numéroté ‘no. 41’ (verso)
sanguine, traits d’encadrement à la sanguine filigrane Beauvais
46,1 x 30,1 cm (18 1⁄8 x 11 7⁄8 in.)
Provenance
Vente Christie’s, Londres, 12 décembre 1985, lot 391.
Further details
BERNARD PICART, STUDY OF A SEATED MALE NUDE, SEEN FROM BEHIND, RED CHALK, RED CHALK FRAMING LINES, WATERMARK, SIGNED AND DATED 1725
At least fifty comparable and similarly signed academies are known by Picart, who was mainly active as a book illustrator (C. Dury in Bernard Picart (1673-1733). Dessinateur de Paris à Amsterdam, exhib. cat., Magny-les-Hameaux, Musée de Port-Royal des Champs, 2019, p. 80). Among these are two drawings of seated men, dated respectively 1720 and November 1723, in the Morgan Library and Museum, New York (inv. III,85e, III,85f), and a third in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. RP-T-FM-253; see ibid., p. 78, no. VIII, ill.).
| Art style: | Old Masters |
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| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
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| Art style: | Old Masters |
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| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
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