ID 1134480
Lot 165 | CHARLES PERCIER (PARIS 1764-1838)
Estimate value
£ 7 000 – 10 000
Design for the Stage: A wooded Garden with the Temple of Venus, for André Ernest Modeste Grétry's Anacréon Chez Polycrate
inscribed 'porphire' (lower right) and further inscribed and dated 'approuvé pour être Executé/ tel qu'il est du coté droit/ Paris 13 xbre 1792/ Cellerier [?]' (verso)
pencil, pen and black ink and watercolour, heightened with white on paper
15 x 24 ¾ in. (38.1 x 62.3 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 3 July 1990, lot 169.
Anonymous sale; Galerie Koller, Zurich, 2 November 1995, lot N210A.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 21 November 1996, lot 21.
with Charles Plante Fine Art, Washington D.C, until January 1997, where purchased by Philip Hewat-Jaboor.
Literature
'Dealers and for Art Fair Exhibitors', Antiques Trade Gazette, 15 February 1997, page number untraced, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Dorchester Hotel, The 12th World of Drawings and Watercolours Fair, February, 1997, unnumbered.
London, Charles Plante Fine Arts with Stair and Co, Inside out: Historic Watercolour Drawings, Oil Sketches and Painting of Interiors and Exteriors, 1770-1870, 2000, no. 10.
New York, Bard Graduate Center Gallery, Charles Percier: Architecture and Design in an Age of Revolutions, November 18, 2016–February 5, 2017, no. 134.
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
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