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Jean-Démosthène Dugourc (Versailles 1749-1825 Paris)
Lot 97 PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

Jean-Démosthène Dugourc (Versailles 1749-1825 Paris)

A design for a fireplace, with Egyptian inspired decorations; a pharaoh, wearing a nemes (a stylised crown), and a short kilt to the left, two Osiris Canopus's flanking the fire, and a lintel with a Graeco-Roman inspired procession with draped figures

Closed7 December 2016

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GBP 2,750

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Jean-Démosthène Dugourc (Versailles 1749-1825 Paris)
A design for a fireplace, with Egyptian inspired decorations; a pharaoh, wearing a nemes (a stylised crown), and a short kilt to the left, two Osiris Canopus's flanking the fire, and a lintel with a Graeco-Roman inspired procession with draped figures
pencil, pen and black ink, watercolour, watermark JKool and Strasburg bend with a fleur de lis
12 5/8 x 18¾ in. (32 x 47.5 cm.)

Specialist note

Presumably inspired by Piranesi's Diverse Maniere d'adornare...Giambattista Piranesi Architetto, published in Rome, 1769, a large collection of etchings showing ornament derived from Egyptian, Tuscan and Grecian architecture. For fireplaces with Egyptian decoration from the series, see J. Wilton-Ely, Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Complete Etchings, 1994, San Francisco, I, nos. 863-73.