LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Red Chalk

Measurements:

6.06 in. (15.40 cm.) (height) by 9.33 in. (23.70 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed in pen and black ink: J. L. Legeay invenit et fecit.

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy of Arts,. France in the Eighteenth Century , 1968, no. 421;. Arts Council of Great Britain,. The Age of Neo-Classicism , 1972, no. 1225.

Literature:

J. Harris,. Legeay, Piranesi and International Neo-Classicism in Rome, 1740-1750, Essays in the History of Architecture Presented to Rudolf Wittkower , 1967, p. 193, no. 26, section XX, fig. 21

Provenance:

H. Hamal;. sale, London, Sotheby's, 24 October 1962, lot 262;. John Harris, London;. Succi Limited, London;. sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 July 1981, lot 52.