Jan 24, 2005 - Sale 2030

Sale 2030 - Lot 163

Price Realized: $ 1,150
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
FRENCH SCHOOL, 18TH-CENTURY
Study of a Seated Woman.

Red chalk with white chalk heightening on cream laid paper with a prepared tan wash ground. 200x180 mm; 8x71/8 inches. Counter mark with the letters P I S watermark.

With--NICOLAS POUSSIN (follower of). Venus and Cupid, pen and brown ink on cream laid paper. 193x102 mm; 75/8x41/8 inches. Inscribed "Niccolò Possino" in ink, upper margin recto. Poussin (1594-1665), together with the Flemish sculptor Francois Duquesnoy, is known to have drawn from the classical statues and reliefs he saw in Rome in the early 17th-century.