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Lot 83A: Toussaint Dubreuil (Paris 1562-1602)

Est: $4,000 USD - $6,000 USDSold:
Christie'sNew York, NY, USJanuary 22, 2004

Item Overview

Description

Lot's wife looking back at the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white on light brown paper, a loss made up on the left
8 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (215 x 267 mm.)

Artist or Maker

Provenance

A. Normand (L. 153a).

Notes

Similar in technique to a drawing at the Rijksmuseum, identified by K.G. Boon and exhibited in Paris, Grand Palais, L'école de Fontainbleau, 1972, no. 106. Other sheets, related to a series of tapestry designs for L'histoire de Diane, are in the Louvre (J. Guiffrey and P. Marcel, Inventaire Général des dessins du Musée du Louvre et du Musée de Versailles: Ecole Française, Paris, V, 1910, nos. 3680-4).

Auction Details

Old Master & 19th Century Drawings

by
Christie's
January 22, 2004, 12:00 AM EST

20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, 10020, US