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Antoine Pierre Mongin
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description
- Antoine Pierre Mongin
- Allegory of Love: A kneeling youth with Cupid and amorini
- Bodycolour and gouache over traces of black chalk;
signed and dated, lower right: Mongin / 1796
Provenance
Sale, London, Christie's, 13-14 December 1984, lot 146
Catalogue Note
Antoine Pierre Mongin studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and exhibited at the Salon between 1791 and 1824. In addition to working in bodycolour and gouache, Mongin was an engraver and painter of history and genre scenes.