Lot 230: François Etienne Villeret circa 1800 - 1866 Paris , an ornate french living room, a bookcase to the left with several sculptures on top watercolour

signed and dated: Villeret . 49 watercolour

measurements note 260 by 376mm

London, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, Interiors , 1981, no. 71, reproduced fig. 65

Villeret was a recognised painter of interiors, churches and landscapes. He was a pupil of Julien Gué. For other Parisian interiors by him, dating from the previous year, see Mario Praz, An Illustrated History of Interior Decoration.υ1 Others, executed in the years 1848 and 1849, were also included in the 1981 Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox exhibition (nos. 67-70, reproduced). 1. Milan 1981; reproduced figs. 300-302