LOUIS-JEAN DESPREZ (AUXERRE 1743-1804 STOCKHOLM)

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Lot 86 | LOUIS-JEAN DESPREZ (AUXERRE 1743-1804 STOCKHOLM)
LOUIS-JEAN DESPREZ (AUXERRE 1743-1804 STOCKHOLM)

A view of the Tomb of Mamia, in Pompeii

signed 'Despres' (lower left) and with inscriptions 'Tombeau de Mamia a Pompeji' (on the mount, lower centre) and 'Aquarell af Jean Louis Desprez tillhört Generaldir. M. Huss. Inköpt 1892. 30 Kronor' (verso)

watercolour over etched outlines by Francesco Piranesi (1758-1810) after a drawing by Desprez

47.9 x 69.5 cm (18 3/4 x 27 3/8 in.)





Provenance

M. Huss, probably professor and director general of the Swedish hospitals Magnus Huss (1807-1890) (according to a handwritten inscription on the reverse), Forsmark manor, Uppland.

Anonymous sale; Uppsala Auktionskammare, Uppsala, 13 June 2019, lot 1004.



Literature

N.G. Wollin, Gravures originales de Desprez our éxecutées d’après ses dessins, Malmö 1933, p. 114, no. 9 and p. 171, pl. 61.



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