ID 1437407
Lot 72 | FRENCH SCHOOL, 18TH CENTURY
Estimate value
£ 6 000 – 8 000
Allegory of Justice
graphite and black chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolour and bodycolour with gum arabic on laid paper
12 x 24 ¼ in. (30.4 x 61.5 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 10 June 1959, lot 88 (as attributed to Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806)).
with Herbert N. Bier, London (as Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806)).
with Julius Böhler, Munich, by 1961 ((as Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806)).
with Luigi Grassi, Florence, where acquired by Elizabeth Böthlingk von Buch, and by descent to the present collection.
Literature
A. Ananoff, L'oeuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806), Paris, 1963, II, p 152, no. 993, fig. 268, (as Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806)).
Exhibited
Munich, Julius Böhler, 1961, no. 24.
| Applied technique: | Gouache, Painted, Watercolor |
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| Genre: | Allegory |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Applied technique: | Gouache, Painted, Watercolor |
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| Genre: | Allegory |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Address of auction |
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