PIERRE-ANTOINE DEMACHY (PARIS 1723-1807)
12.02.2026 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1538793
Lot 303 | PIERRE-ANTOINE DEMACHY (PARIS 1723-1807)
Estimate value
20000USD $ 20 000 – 30 000
The colonnade of the Louvre during its reconstruction
signed and dated 'Demachy/ 17[?]' (lower right)
graphite, bodycolor, on thin cardboard
7 1/8 x 12 7/8 in. (18 x 32.7 cm)
Provenance
with J. Kugel, Paris (Un panorama de Paris et ses environs: tableaux et dessins 1680-1840, 1996, no. 5, ill.)
Acquired by Irene Roosevelt Aitken from the above.
Literature
E. Bellier de la Chavignerie and L. Auvray, Dictionnaire des artistes de l’école française, Paris, 1882, I, p. 401.
J. Seznec and J. Adhémar, Diderot. Salons, Paris, 1975, I, p. 50.
M.-P. Petkowska, ‘Demachy, peintre des ruines et vedutiste parisien’, L'estampille / l'Objet d'Art, no. 374, November 2002, p. 80.
Exhibited
Paris, Salon, 1759, no. 82.
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
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