GEORGES-FRANÇOIS BLONDEL (FRANCE 1730-1791) - photo 1
GEORGES-FRANÇOIS BLONDEL (FRANCE 1730-1791) - photo 2
GEORGES-FRANÇOIS BLONDEL (FRANCE 1730-1791) - photo 3

GEORGES-FRANÇOIS BLONDEL (FRANCE 1730-1791)

Lot 81
26.03.2025 15:00UTC +01:00
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Event locationFrance, Paris
ID 1389945
Lot 81 | GEORGES-FRANÇOIS BLONDEL (FRANCE 1730-1791)
Estimate value
€ 2 000 – 3 000
GEORGES-FRANÇOIS BLONDEL (FRANCE 1730-1791)
Intérieur d'un édifice religieux; et Intérieur d'un temple à l'antique
graphite, plume et encre noire, lavis gris, sur son montage original du XVIIIe siècle
22,9 x 29,5 cm (9 x 11 5/8 in.), une paire(2)




Provenance

Vente anonyme, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 9 juin 2021, lot 64.
Vente anonyme, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 20 mai 2022, lot 155.
Vente anonyme, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 21 mars 2024, lot 104 et 117.



Further details

GEORGES-FRANÇOIS BLONDEL, INTERIOR OF A RELIGIOUS BUILDING, AND INTERIOR OF A TEMPLE, GRAPHITE, PEN AND BLACK INK, GREY WASH, A PAIR
A draughtsman, engraver and architect, Georges-François Blondel trained with his father before embarking on a fruitful trip to Italy, from which he returned marked by the influence of Piranesi. Best known for a series of mezzotints produced in London and published between 1765 and 1767, in the present drawings he shows the same taste for drama and monumentality (J.-F. Mejanès, Piranèse et les français, 1740-1770, May-November 1976, Académie de France à Rome, cat. exp., p. 58). The search for an effect of architectural strangeness is particularly pronounced here, and the construction of the plans suggests a stage set. The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has another study of a set by Blondel, dated 1763 (inv. RP-T-1912-17), while in 1971 the Galerie Prouté presented a drawing of a fantasy ruin with the same aedicula as the one on the first floor in the background of the second drawing in the lot (Catalogue ‘Degas’, Galerie Paul Prouté, Paris, 1971, n° 51).
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