Louis-Jacques Durameau Paris 1733 - 1796 Versailles

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

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Description

Louis-Jacques Durameau
'les soins maternels'
bears attribution in black chalk, verso: Durameau
black chalk heightened with white chalk on buff paper

Provenance

Jean Masson (L.1494a);
his sale, Paris, Galerie George Petit, 7-8 May 1923, lot 67 (reproduced)

Literature

Anne Leclair, Louis-Jacques Durameau 1733-1796, Paris 2001, p. 287, cat. no. D.R 43, reproduced

Catalogue Note

We are most grateful to Anne Leclair for having endorsed the attribution to Durameau, revising her rejection of the drawing in the catalogue raisonné of 2001 (at which time she had not seen the drawing itself).