Lot 79
  • 79

Joseph Werner II

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description

  • Joseph Werner II
  • Study of Hunting Horns
  • signed and dated in pen and black ink 1669 lower right
  • drawn with the point of the brush in black and gray wash on paper.  Together with Jean-Baptiste Huët, Study of Turnip Leaves, pen and brown ink with gray wash over traces of pencil on laid paper and Pierre Charles Trémolières, A Grotesque Head, red chalk on paper. 3 works.

Provenance

The first: Dr. Martin Moeller, Kunsthandel, Hamburg
Acquired from the above, 2005
The second: Galerie Chantal Kiener, Paris
Acquired from the above, 2005
The third: Louis Marie Joseph Morel d'Arleux, Abbeville
Thence by descent through the artist's family
W.M. Brady & Co., New York
Acquired from the above, 1993

Exhibited

The second: Yale 2010, no. 64

Condition

The first: Some minor discoloration and small losses in the corners on upper edge, a few small brown stains in the center, otherwise in good condition. Not examined out of frame. The second: In good condition apart from some minor discoloration. Not examined out of frame. The third: In good condition apart from minor surface stains. Not examined out of frame.
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