May 21, 2020 - Sale 2537

Sale 2537 - Lot 31

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
FRENCH SCHOOL, 18TH CENTURY
Charon Directing Damned Souls on his Ferry to Cross the River Styx.

Pen and ink on cream laid paper. 330x438 mm; 13 1/4x17 1/4 inches. Proprietary watermark.

We would like to thank Jim Goodfriend, C & J Goodfriend, New York, for identifying this drawing as a study in reverse for an etching by Tommaso Benucci from circa 1800.