Lot 323: Attributed to Louis-Gabriel Blanchet (Paris 1705-1772 Rome)

Attributed to Louis-Gabriel Blanchet (Paris 1705-1772 Rome)
A Roman landscape with a church in the distance
with inscription 'Natoire'
black and white chalk on blue paper
9¼ x 14¾ in. (234 x 374 mm.)

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Comparable with a series of Roman landscapes by Blanchet formerly with P. & D. Colnaghi in 1959, France in the eighteenth century, exhib. cat., London, Royal Academy, 1968, nos. 22-6 and fig. 260. For a description of these see the entry by Alastair Laing, 'The Ford Collection', The Walpole Society, 1998, LX, under RBF 154-8, pp. 178-9.