Lot 138: PIERRE ETIENNE FALCONET | A Young Girl Holding an Apple

Black, white and red chalk on blue (discolored) paper;
numbered in brown ink lower right: 15

16 5/8 x 13 1/8 inches

Black, white and red chalk on blue (discolored) paper;<br />numbered in brown ink lower right: <em>15</em>

Laid down. Surface slightly rubbed and paper has also slightly discolored. It has small repairs and losses around the edges and a few small tears. There are about five pin point holes scattered on the sheet. The black chalk is still quite strong and fresh. Sold in a wooden gilded partly old French late eighteenth century frame.
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NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."

Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, The Timeless Eye: Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, 1999, no. 69

A. Dückers, Line, Licht und Schatten, Meisterzeichnungen und Skulturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier -oniatowski, Berlin, 1999, p. 401.
P. Rylands, The Timeless Eye: Master drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, Berlin, 1999, p. 401

With Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York;
Mme d'Ayala;
sale, New York, Christie's, 10 January 1990, lot 124,
where purchased by the late Jan Krugier