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CHARLES DE LA FOSSE (PARIS 1636-1716)

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20.03.2024 15:00UTC +02:00
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ID 1172913
Lot 48 | CHARLES DE LA FOSSE (PARIS 1636-1716)
CHARLES DE LA FOSSE (PARIS 1636-1716)

Projet d’angle pour un plafond avec figures tenant des guirlandes entre des putti encadrant un blason surmonté d’une couronne (recto); Angle d’un plafond avec Minerve (verso)

avec inscription ‘l’agriculture’ et avec numérotation ‘353’ (verso)

pierre noire, sanguine, les contours partiellement incisés, filigrane grappe inscrit dans un cercle

23,4 x 26,4 cm (9 ¼ x 10 ¼ in.)





Provenance

Christopher Powney, Londres.

Lodewijk Houthakker (1926-2008), Amsterdam (L. 3893); vente Christie’s, New York, 11 janvier 1994, lot 71.



Literature

P. Fuhring, Design into Art. Drawings for Architecture and Ornament. The Lodewijk Houthakker collection, Londres, 1989, I, n° 334, ill.



Exhibited

Nijmegen, Museum Commanderie van Sant Jan, et Haarlem, Vleeshal Grote Markt, Wanden en Plafonds. Tekeningen uit de Verzameling Lodewijk Houthakker, 1985, n° 48, ill.



Further details

CHARLES DE LA FOSSE, CORNER OF A CEILING WITH FIGURES HOLDING SWAGS BETWEEN PUTTI FLANKING A COAT OF ARMS SURMOUNTED WITH A CORONET (RECTO), CORNER OF A CEILING WITH MINERVA (VERSO), BLACK AND RED CHALK, PARTLY INCISED FOR TRANSFER, WATERMARK

Previously given to Charles Le Brun, this double-sided sheet is now recognised as the work of Le Brun’s pupil La Fosse. Stylistically, the drawing can be compared with other studies for ceiling decorations by the artist, such as a sheet from the collection of the Marquis de Chennevières, now in the Metropolitan Museum in New York (inv. 1985.37; see J. Bean, 15th-18th Century French Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1986, no. 143, ill.). Although it is not known for what decorative program this study was made, Peter Fuhring has tentatively suggested that the Marquis de Louvois, for whom La Fosse worked, could have commissioned the design, given the presence, among the decorative details, of a marquis’s crown (op. cit., p. 283).
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