Lot 553
  • 553

Jean Guillaume Moitte

Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description

  • Jean Guillaume Moitte
  • design for the sculptural decoration of a gate: the personification of paris surrounded by four river gods
  • Pen and black ink and brown wash, over black chalk, within black ink framing lines, on eight joined pieces of paper;
    signed in black ink, lower left:  J.g. Moitte Steur.

Provenance

With Paul Prouté, Paris, 1971;
sale, London, Christie's South Kensington, 21 April 1998, lot 311  

Literature

G. Gramaccini, Jean-Guillaume Moitte (1746-1810), Leben und Werk, Berlin 1993, vol. II, no. 136, fig. 192

Catalogue Note

Together with a study of a river god and nymph in pen and brown ink and wash by Girardon.