Lot 116: DUTAILLY

.L'IMITATION DE L'ANTIQUE. AND .L'ADMIRATION DE L'ANTIQUE.

Each circa 15 by 11 1/2 in; 382 by 290 mm

Both pen and black ink and brown wash heightened with white, within brown ink framing lines, over black chalk;one signed in brown ink, lower left: Dutailly

E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs..., Gründ 1999, vol. IV, p. 926

Sale, Paris, 23-24 February 1939 (5,250FF)

Very little is known of the artist Dutailly, who was born in Lyon towards the end of the 18th century. He was a pupil of Gabriel François Doyen, exhibited in Paris in 1800-1801 and is best known as a genre painter and watercolorist. One of the two designs in this lot, L'imitation de l'antique, was engraved by Thérèse Eléonore Lingée, and a hand-colored impression of this print is in the British Museum. (1)

1. Inventory number 1889,0318.28