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Charles Percier (Paris 1764-1838)
Lot 166

Charles Percier (Paris 1764-1838)

Roman reliefs, busts and urns: design for a frontispiece

Closed10 July 2014

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Charles Percier (Paris 1764-1838)
Roman reliefs, busts and urns: design for a frontispiece
inscribed 'PALAIS ET MAISONS/ DE ROME,/ XII ¯ CAHIER.'
watercolour, possibly over etched outline
10 x 8½ in. (25.7 x 21.2 cm.)

F. J. B. Watson; and thence by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

One of the series of designs showing imagined grouping of Roman monuments and sculpture which were used for Percier's collaborative work with Pierre Fontaine (1762-1853), Palais, Maisons, et autres édifices modernes dessinés à Rome, published in Paris in 1798. The present composition appears as pl. 68.