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LOUIS-JEAN DESPREZ (AUXERRE 1743-1804 STOCKHOLM)

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$ 30 000
Auction dateClassic
13.10.2023 10:00UTC -04:00
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ID 1027739
Lot 419 | LOUIS-JEAN DESPREZ (AUXERRE 1743-1804 STOCKHOLM)
LOUIS-JEAN DESPREZ (AUXERRE 1743-1804 STOCKHOLM)

The ordination of a bishop in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome by Pope Pius IV, probably in the presence of King Gustav III of Sweden

signed ‘L:Després: f.’ (lower right)

graphite, pen and brown ink, watercolor, heightened with white, squared for transfer in graphite

17 ¼ x 37 ¼ in (43.7 x 94.5 cm.)





Provenance

Sir John Gardner Dillman Engleheart, K.C.B. (1823-1923), London.

Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 25 June 1923, lot 7 (£31-10s to ‘Glen’).

M. Michel, Paris, 1931 (according Wollin, op. cit.).

Anonymous sale; Palais Galliera, Paris, 15 March 1973, lot 2.

The Collection of the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

N. G. Wollin, Desprez en Italie. Dessins topographiques et d’architecture, décors de théâtre et compositions romantiques, exécutés 1777-1784, Malmö, 1935, pp. 183, 185, 296, no. 222, ill. (as ‘Installation of Bishops’).

U. Cederlöf and R. von Holten, Louis Jean Desprez. Tecknare, teaterkonstnär, arkitekt, exhib. cat., Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, 1992, p. 21, ill. (as ‘Episcopal ordination performed by the Pope in an unknown church’).

E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs, IV, Paris, 1999, p. 505 (as ‘The Mass in the Vatican’).
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