Lot 298: LOUIS DUCIS

(Versailles 1775-1847 Paris) View of a Classical Garden with a Troubadour and a Woman. Pen and black ink and black and white chalk on tan laid paper, 1803. 400x325 mm; 15x12 inches. Signed and dated in black chalk, lower right recto. Ducis trained in the studio of Jacques-Louis David and was among a group of young artists from southern France known as the parti aristocratique.