Lot 98: Louis Gauffier (Poitiers or La Rochelle 1761-1801 Livorno)

Cornelia presenting her two young sons inscribed 'PUBLIO SCIPIO AFRICANUS CORNELIAE PATER.' and 'AEMILIANUS SCIPIO AFRICANUS ET NAUMANTIUNUS' black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash heightened with white, watermark cartouche 131/2 x 20 3/8 in. (345 x 522 mm.) PROVENANCE Anon sale, Christie's New York, 22 May 1996, lot 10 NOTES A picture by Gauffier of the same subject is at Fontainebleau and a number of his drawings are in the Mus‚e Fabre in Montpellier (J. Vilain, Le N‚o-Classicisme fran‡ais, dessins des mus‚es de province, exhib. cat., Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 1974, nos. 51-55).