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After Louis-Philippe Crepin
Lot 324

After Louis-Philippe Crepin

Mausolée élevé a la mémoire de Lapérouse, par les français dans l’île de Vanikoro

Closed21 April 2016

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After Louis-Philippe Crepin
Mausolée élevé a la mémoire de Lapérouse, par les français dans l’île de Vanikoro
lithograph, published by Lemercier, Paris
unframed
16 3/8 x 23in. (41.5 x 58.5cm.)

Specialist note

A variant of the plate in the Atlas Historique which credits de Sainson. The present plate credits Crépin (whose painting of the subject is in the National Library of Australia, Canberra), Crépin presumably working up his subject from drawings made in the field by de Sainson.