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Lot 150
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Florent Fidèle Constant Bourgeois, called Bourgeois du Castellet

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Florent Fidèle Constant Bourgeois, called Bourgeois du Castellet
  • Ten Italian views, including the Villa Negroni, Rome, the Castello Colonna, Genzano and the Baths of Diocletian
  • All pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk;
    one sheet signed and dated: C. Bourgeois 1809 and others signed with the artist's initials: C.B
  • trois : 10x13cm; six autres: 14,5x21,5cm; un autre: 18,5x14cm
représentant la villa Negroni, le monastère de Morons, le château de Genazano, la Valle Pietra, un cloître, et quatre paysages des environs de Rome,
annotés et signés

Catalogue Note

A pupil of Jacques-Louis David, Florent Fidèle Constant Bourgeois was a landscape painter, draughtsman and printmaker.  He spent the majority of his career in Italy producing numerous drawings of picturesque Italian views.  In 1804 a series of engravings after views by Bourgeois was published as the Receuil de Vues et Fabriques Pittoresques d'Italie.