Live Auction 21459Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours
CLAUDE-LOUIS CHÂTELET (PARIS 1753-1795)
Lot 84 Property of an American Collector

CLAUDE-LOUIS CHÂTELET (PARIS 1753-1795)

A Swiss mountain landscape with a waterfall

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CLAUDE-LOUIS CHÂTELET (PARIS 1753-1795)
A Swiss mountain landscape with a waterfall
inscribed 'Champ du Moulin' (lower left)
brush and black and grey ink, heightened with white, on blue paper, pen and black ink framing lines
21.2 x 26.3 cm (8 3/8 x 10 3/8 in.)

Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 22 January 2004, lot 211.
with Jean-Luc Baroni, London (Master Drawings and Oil Sketches, 2005, no. 34, ill.).
Private collection, U.S.A.

Specialist note

This landscape was probably produced during Châtelet's trip to Switzerland, around 1780-1781, when he took part in the publishing project led by Jean-Benjamin de Laborde and Baron Fidel de Zurlauben, Tableaux topographiques, pittoresques, physiques, historiques, moraux, politique, littéraires de la Suisse et de l’Italie (Paris, 1780-1786). A very similar view of the falls at Schaffhausen, also on blue paper and in the same technique, was sold at Sotheby’s, 23 January 2001, lot 336 (formerly in the Gaines collection). The present drawing is also similar to a view in the Horvitz collection (A. Clark, Mastery and Elegance. Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, exhib. cat., Cambridge, Harvard University Art Museums, and elsewhere, p. 413, no. A.66, ill.).