Nov 03, 2021 - Sale 2586

Sale 2586 - Lot 659

Price Realized: $ 1,300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
JACQUES-FRANÇOIS BLONDEL
(Rouen 1705-1774 Paris)
An Ornamental Screen or Mirror.

Red chalk on cream laid paper. 230x260 mm; 9x10 1/4 inches.

Provenance: Hobhouse Ltd., London; Armin B. Allen, Inc., New York; private collection, London.

Published: Ornamental Drawings, 1520-1920, London, 1986, page 30, number 47 (illustrated).

Exhibited: "Ornamental Drawings, 1520-1920," Hobhouse Ltd., London, October-November 1986.

Alastair Laing, Curator of Pictures and Sculpture at the National Trust, London, has seen this drawing and confirmed the attribution to Jacques-François Blondel.