French School, 17th (?) Century
Lot 140

French School, 17th (?) Century

A classical landscape with ruins, a pyramid and two figures

Closed4 December 2018

Price Realised

GBP 2,000

More Information

How to sell

French School, 17th (?) Century
A classical landscape with ruins, a pyramid and two figures
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash (outlines incised)
8 x 12 1/8 in. (20.5 x 30.8 cm); and three further drawings:
(ii) Italian School, 18th Century, An extensive landscape with an imaginary view of Rome, black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash, 8½ x 15 3/8 in. (21.6 x 39 cm);
(iii) Circle of Gaspard Dughet, called Gaspard Poussin (Rome 1615-1675), An extensive mountain landscape, trees in the foreground, black and red chalk, grey wash on (formerly) blue paper, 9 5/8 x 14½ in. (24.4 x 36.9 cm);
(iv) After Marco Ricci (Belluno 1676-1729 Venice), A wooded landscape with robbers attacking travellers, pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash, 14 1/8 x 21 in. (36 x 53.4 cm)
(4)

(i) Thomas Dimsdale, London (1758-1823) (L. 2426).
M.H. Bloxam, by whom given to Rugby School Art Museum.
(ii)
Unidentified collector's mark in brown ink 'S' (not in Lugt).
M.H. Bloxam, by whom given to Rugby School Art Museum.
(iii)
Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville (1680-1765) (L. 2951, his paraphe and his number '179').
Perhaps Richard Cosway (L. 628, damaged mark)
Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (1769-1830) (according Popham's typescript catalogue).
John Watkins Brett, London (1805-1863); Christie's, 8 April 1864, lot 489 'G. Poussin - A landscape - bistre' (7s to Bloxam).
M.H. Bloxam, by whom given to Rugby School Art Museum.
(iv)
William Young Ottley, London (1771-1836) (his mount and L. 2663); T. Philipe, London, 6-23 June 1814, lot 1102 'RICCI (Marco), One –a grand landschape, with banditti attaching two travellers – pen and bistre-washfull of character and expression'.
Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (1769-1830) (L. 2445).
M.H. Bloxam, by whom given to Rugby School Art Museum; with his inscription and attribution 'Rugby School Art Museum e dono Matt: H: Bloxam/ Ricci, marco./ a.d 1680-1730/ Wm Young Ottley's Collection/ Lawrence Collection' (on the mount).

Specialist note

The fourth drawing in this lot is a copy of a drawing of the same size in the Morgan Library and Museum, New York, from the Janos Scholz Collection (A. Scarpa Sonnino, Marco Ricci, Milan, 1992, fig. 232).