PIERRE-JACQUES VOLAIRE, CALLED CHEVALIER VOLAIRE (Tolone 1729-1802 Lerici) A Roman Tomb on the Via Appia.
Pencil on cream laid paper. 460x320 mm; 181/8x125/8 inches. Signed (?) in pencil, lower right recto.
Volaire, who was a student of Joseph Vernet, did much of his work in the Roman campagna and around Naples.
With--P. COURTOIS (French, early 19th-century). River Landscape with a Woman and Child Walking on a Path, pencil on cream wove paper. 265x400 mm; 101/2x153/4 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right recto.
