LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pen and dark brown ink and wash over black chalk, mounted on album page

Measurements:

13.23 in. (33.60 cm.) (height) by 9.41 in. (23.90 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and inscribed in pen and brown ink lower left: Luigi Valadier argentiere a S. Luigi de Francesi

Exhibited:

Rome, Villa Medici, L'oro di Valadier: Un genio nella Roma del Settecento, 1997, (catalogue by Alvar González-Palacios), no. 65

Literature:

Peter Fuhring, 'London, Artemis Valadier Drawings', exhibition review, Burlington Magazine, vol. CXXXIII, no. 1060 (1991), p. 472, fig. 50

Provenance:

With Artemis Group, David Carritt Limited, London, Valadier: Three Generations of Roman Goldsmiths: An Exhibition of Drawings and Works of Art, 1991, p. 170, album no. 19c