Live Auction 5444Town & Country Perspectives - The Charles Plante Collection
Attributed to Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (French, 1762-1853)
Lot 387

Attributed to Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (French, 1762-1853)

Design for a monument, possibly for the Villa Albani, Rome

Closed4 June 2008

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GBP 1,625

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Attributed to Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (French, 1762-1853)
Design for a monument, possibly for the Villa Albani, Rome
pencil, pen and black ink with grey wash
22 x 16½ in. (55.9 x 41.9 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's London, 23 October, 1991, lot 116, as 'Circle of Charles Percier: An Obelisk and a Column'.
Henry Blackmer, Athens.

Specialist note

The vase on the left of this drawing is in the manner of the Albani vase that Thomas Hope copied from the Albani and Barberini collections. A pair was made and placed at one end of his sculpture gallery at Duchess Street, as guardians to the entrance to the other rooms of his mansion.