Live Auction 21459Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours
GILLES-PAUL CAUVET (AIX-EN-PROVENCE 1731-1788 PARIS)
Lot 68 Property of an American Collector

GILLES-PAUL CAUVET (AIX-EN-PROVENCE 1731-1788 PARIS)

Design for a decorative panel with a cherub seated on a globe

Closed4 July 2023

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GBP 6,930

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GILLES-PAUL CAUVET (AIX-EN-PROVENCE 1731-1788 PARIS)
Design for a decorative panel with a cherub seated on a globe
red chalk, red chalk framing lines
47.1 x 19.8 cm (18 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.)

Martine-Marie-Pol de Béhague, Comtesse de Béarn, Paris; thence by descent; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 29 November 1995, as part of lot 107.
with Didier Aaron, New York, 1996.
Private collection, U.S.A.

Specialist note

This drawing was part of a large group of circa twenty drawings by Cauvet, formerly in the collection of the Comtesse de Béarn, dispersed at auction in Paris in 1995. Most sheets from the group, including the present work, served as print models for the artist’s Receuil d’ornemens; others are in the Morgan Library and Museums, New York (inv. 1997.84), and the pair previously in the sale Christie’s, New York, 25 January 2007, lot 79.