Lot 81: Charles-Michelange Challe (Paris 1718-1778)

An architectural capriccio
with inscription 'Jacques Rousseau.'
black chalk, pen and grey ink, grey wash
8 1/4 x 11 in. (208 x 280 mm.)

C. Jourdeuil (L. 527).
Purchased from Huddlestone, June 1910 (1 guinea).

The attribution to Challe was first suggested by Edward Croft Murray. A comparable drawing with the figures likewise drawn only with the brush, as in the present sheet, is at Stockholm, P. Bjurström, French Drawings, Eighteenth Century, Stockholm, 1982, no. 893.

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