CHARLES-LOUIS CLÉRISSEAU (Paris 1721-1820 Auteuil)
Lot 49Chicago Classical: A Private Collection

CHARLES-LOUIS CLÉRISSEAU (Paris 1721-1820 Auteuil)

An architectural capriccio with a colonnade and two groups of figures sitting and working in the ruins

Closed28 January 2022

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USD 20,000

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CHARLES-LOUIS CLÉRISSEAU (Paris 1721-1820 Auteuil)
An architectural capriccio with a colonnade and two groups of figures sitting and working in the ruins
signed and dated ‘Clerisse[a]u/ Rom. 1763’
black chalk, watercolor, bodycolor; together with, as its pendant, CIRCLE OF CHARLES-LOUIS CLÉRISSEAU, An architectural capriccio with ruins of a classical building and figures, 24 3⁄4 x 21 1⁄4 in. (68 x 54.1cm), black chalk, watercolor, bodycolor
24 3⁄4 x 21 1⁄4 in. (68 x 54.1cm)
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with Galerie Kugel, Paris.

Specialist note

The same composition was reused by Clérisseau in a drawing also signed, dated 1775, now at the British Museum (inv. 1991,1005.84), in which only the figures were changed.