Jean Guillaume Moitte

Lot 553: JEAN GUILLAUME MOITTE

Name: JEAN GUILLAUME MOITTE
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: 29bd3d8f98

Est: $6,000 USD - $9,000 USDSold:

Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USJanuary 29, 2010

Item Overview

Description

DESIGN FOR THE SCULPTURAL DECORATION OF A GATE: THE PERSONIFICATION OF PARIS SURROUNDED BY FOUR RIVER GODS

Dimensions

9 1/2 by 18 in, 240 by 457 mm (2)

Artist or Maker

Jean Guillaume Moitte

Medium

Pen and black ink and brown wash, over black chalk, within black ink framing lines, on eight joined pieces of paper;signed in black ink, lower left: J.g. Moitte Steur.

Literature

G. Gramaccini, Jean-Guillaume Moitte (1746-1810), Leben und Werk, Berlin 1993, vol. II, no. 136, fig. 192

Provenance

With Paul Prouté, Paris, 1971;
sale, London, Christie's South Kensington, 21 April 1998, lot 311

Notes

Together with a study of a river god and nymph in pen and brown ink and wash by Girardon.

Auction Details

Important European Terracotta & Bronze Sculpture from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections

Sotheby's

January 29, 2010, 10:00 AM EST

1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, US

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