Lot 125: GIUSEPPE VALADIER (1762-1834) TWO DESIGNS FOR THE FACADE OF A BUILDING.

One inscribed in pen and brown ink: piu lungo. Both black chalk. Black chalk sketches on the verso of both drawings. Each circa 150 by 445 mm. (2) These two studies may be compared with a sheet similar in size and media formerly in the Lodewijk Houthakker collection (see P. Fuhring, Design into Art, Drawings for Architecture and Ornament, The Lodewijk Houthakker Collection, London 1989, vol. II, p.484, no.763, illus.).