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Lot 147: SIMON-JOSEPH-ALEXANDRE-CLÉMENT DENIS

Est: $1,500 USD - $2,000 USD
Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USJanuary 25, 2011

Item Overview

Description

SIMON-JOSEPH-ALEXANDRE-CLÉMENT DENIS 1755 - 1813 LANDSCAPE WITH PATH AND OVERGROWN CLASSICAL RUINS, WITH A SHEPHERD IN THE DISTANCE inscribed l'interieur de la porte dorè in pencil center left pencil on paper. Together with Louis Lafitte, A Man Sketching at a Ruined Tower , pencil on wove paper. 2 works. the first 15 by 9 in.; the second 7 by 9 1/2 in. 38.1 by 22.9 cm; 17.9 by 24 cm

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

The first: Yale 2010, no. 40
The second: London, Thomas Williams Fine Art, Ltd. at Daniel Katz, Ltd., A Life More Tranquil: Images of Nineteenth Century France, Drawings by Louis Lafitte (1770-1828), November 25 - December 23, 1999, no. 22
Yale 2010, no. 35

Provenance

The first: Didier Aaron, New York
Acquired from the above, 2008
The second: Thomas Williams Fine Art, Ltd., London
Acquired from the above, 1998

Auction Details