Lot 552: NICOLAS-SÉBASTIEN ADAM

MALE ACADEMY STUDY FOR A CRUCIFIXION

21 3/4 by 14 in, 553 by 353 mm (3)

Red chalk;signed in purple crayon, lower left: adam

All with the Heim Gallery, London, from whom purchased

Sold with two other drawings:
Edme Bouchardon, a standing putto holding a scythe, study for the monumental Fontaine des Quatres-Saisons, on the Rue de Grenelle, Paris. The fountain, unveiled in 1745, was designed by Bouchardon and was the largest and grandest of all the public fountains built in 18th Century Paris (see also lot 573);
French School, 18th Century, double sided sheet with Daphne and Apollo and an academic study of a bearded man