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