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Augustin-Alexandre Dumont (Paris 1801-1884)
Lot 128 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

Augustin-Alexandre Dumont (Paris 1801-1884)

View of Porta San Giovanni in Rome

Closed2 December 2014

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Augustin-Alexandre Dumont (Paris 1801-1884)
View of Porta San Giovanni in Rome
inscribed and dated 'porta S Giovanni / Roma / 22 Marzo 1824'
graphite
11 x 16 5/8 in. (27.7 x 42.2 cm.); and Roman ruins with the pyramid of Caius Cestius, by Carlo Bonavia
(2)

with W.R. Jeudwine and Y. French, London, (cat. Four Centuries of Italian Landscape, 1961, no. 46).
Sir Francis Watson, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

Originally from a sketchbook containing academic studies, but also with a few landscapes, all dating from shortly after 1823 when Dumont won the Prix de Rome for sculpture.