LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Pen and black ink and watercolor, over traces of black chalk

Measurements:

18.11 in. (46.00 cm.) (height) by 28.54 in. (72.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

bears inscription, verso: Decoration pour Le Temple de Neptune / inventé et Dessiné par Desprez architecte du Roi de Suède / 1792 and further inscribed below, in graphite: (Desprez(1743-1804)

Exhibited:

New York, New York Cultural Center, . Collectors Anonymous; Four Private New York Collections , 1972

Literature:

L. Hautecoeur, 'Un dessin de Desprez, architecte', . L'Architecture , vol. XXXVIII, no. 19, October 1925, pp. 351-2, reproduced

Provenance:

Mme. Dupuis, Paris;. with Jean de Cayeux, Galerie Cailleux (L.4461);. Claus Virch, New York,. his sale and others, London, Sotheby's, 8 July 2015, lot 126