Lot n° 254
Estimation :
1500 - 2500
EUR
Result without fees
Result
: 950EUR
Jean RESTOUT (1692-1768) - Lot 254
Jean RESTOUT (1692-1768)
Jean RESTOUT (1692-1768)
Academy: man leaning forward. Black stone and white chalk on brown paper
Size: 45.2 x 36 cm
Provenance: Anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, November 8, 1972. With Jacques Petithory, Paris.
Bibliography: P. Rosenberg and A. Schnapper, "Some New Restout Drawings", Master Drawings, vol.
XV, 1977, n°2, p. 171 note 5, pl. 21. C. Gouzi, Jean Restout, peintre d'histoire à Paris, Paris, 2000, n°D.122. According to Christine Gouzi, this academy could have served as a study for the figure of Moses in the Transfiguration, in the church of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Paris, executed around 1760 (C. Gouzi, op. cit., n°P.181).
My orders
Sale information
Sales conditions
Return to catalogue