Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
John Robert Cozens
The Grand Chartreuse, France
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
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John Robert Cozens
(London 1752 - 1797)
The Grande Chartreuse, France
Watercolor over pencil on watermarked laid paper, original wash-line ‘Mercati’ mount;
inscribed in brown ink on the reverse of the mount, probably by William Beckford: General View of the Grande Chartreues [sic], and again in pencil, probably by the mount-maker, Grande Chartreuse
263 by 375 mm; 10 ⅜ by 14 ¾ in.
William Beckford (1760-1844),
his sale, London, Christie’s, 10 April 1805, lot 31, bt. Champernowne,
Arthur Harington Champernowne (1768-1819),
Sir Thomas Barlow, 1nd Bt. (1845-1945),
his sale, London, Sotheby’s, 28 June 1944, lot 20, bt. Agnew’s,
with Agnew’s, London,
by whom sold to the father of the present owner
C.F. Bell & T. Girtin, ‘The Drawings and Sketches of John Robert Cozens’, Walpole Society, vol. XXII, London 1934-5, p. 78, no. 424;
C.F. Bell & T. Girtin, ‘The Sketches and Drawings of John Robert Cozens, some additions and notes to the twenty-third volumn of the The Walpole Society’, London 1941, p. 11, no. 424;
The Burlington Magazine, April 1945, p. 97, reproduced fig. B;
M. Hardie, Water-colour Painting in Britain - The Eighteenth Century, vol. I, London 1966, p. 136