Live Auction 5877Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours
Antoine Bergognon (active late 18th century)
Lot 100 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 

Antoine Bergognon (active late 18th century)

Design for the façade of a national bank

Closed2 December 2014

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GBP 1,125

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Antoine Bergognon (active late 18th century)
Design for the façade of a national bank
graphite, pen and black ink, grey wash
12¾ x 17½ in. (32.2 x 44.1 cm.)

Sir Francis Watson, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

A design for a city executed by Bergognon in 1792 is in the Ecole des Beaux-Art, Paris (inv. PRA 114). According to notes from Sir Francis Watson the present drawing was engraved in the 17th 'cahier' of the Collection des Grands Prix, 1798 (see H. Rosenau, 'The Engravings of the Grand Prix of the French Academy of Architecture', Architectural History, III, 1960, pl. 98.).