ID 696873
Lot 198 | JEAN-BAPTISTE HILAIRE (AUDUN-LE-TICHE 1753-1822 PARIS)
Estimate value
£ 2 000 – 3 000
Study of two Greek soldiers
signed ‘B. Hilaire’
graphite, watercolour on light blue paper
5 1⁄2 x 6 3⁄4 in. (14 x 17 cm.); together with JEAN-BAPTISTE-FRANCOIS GENILLION (PARIS 1750-1829), Imaginary landscape with ruins and figures near the sea, signed and dated (?) ‘G17 [...] 2’ , traces of black chalk, pen and black ink, brown wash, heightened with white, 10 x 7 1⁄4 in. (26.3 x 18.5 cm.); FOLLOWER OF ANTONIO TEMPESTA (FLORENCE 1555-1630 ROME), Study of a galloping horse (recto); Study of a soldier shooting with a bow and arrow (verso), black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, red chalk lines (recto); black chalk, pen and brown ink (verso), watermark I [heart] C in an oval, 5 3⁄8 x 6 3⁄4 in. (13.6 x 17 cm.)
(3)
Provenance
(i) Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 24 November 1989, lot 154.
with Galerie Perrin, Paris, 1990.
(iii) Charles Gasc (1818-after 1869), Paris (L. 543).
Special notice
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| Artist: | Jean-Baptiste Hilaire (1751 - 1828) |
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| Applied technique: | Watercolor |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic |
| Auction house category: | Drawings |
| Artist: | Jean-Baptiste Hilaire (1751 - 1828) |
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| Applied technique: | Watercolor |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic |
| Auction house category: | Drawings |
| Address of auction |
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