Claude-Louis Desrais

Lot 124: CLAUDE-LOUIS DESRAIS

Name: CLAUDE-LOUIS DESRAIS
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: 370482d9f8

Est: $12,000 USD - $18,000 USD

Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USJanuary 25, 2012

Item Overview

Description

PARIS 1746 - 1816
A MAGNETIC EXPERIMENT
Pen and brown ink and wash heightened with white over traces of black chalk, reddened on the verso
190 by 290 mm; 7 1/2 by 11 3/8 in

Artist or Maker

Claude-Louis Desrais

Exhibited

Paris, Musée Carnavalet, La Vie Parisienne au XVIII Siècle, 1928, no. 169;
Paris, Musée Carnavalet, La Revolution Française, 1939, no. 1330;
Grasse, Musée Fragonard, Femmes, 1962, no. 11

Literature

A. Ananoff, "Les Cent 'petits-maîtres' qu'il faut connaître", Connaissance des arts, June 1964, p. 69

Provenance

Comte Jacques de la Béraudière, his sale, Paris, 16-17 April 1883;
Founès;
Penard y Fernandez;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 8 December 1972, lot 11, reproduced;
with Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam, from whom acquired, on 27 May 1975, by H.W. de Groot

Auction Details

Old Master Drawings

Sotheby's

January 25, 2012, 12:00 PM EST

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

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