ID:1956
Attributed to Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre (1713-1789), The Flutist, a drawing in sanguine, on laid paper with a circular watermark, the notation “frago” lower right. Frame in oak sculpted with lambrequins, 16th – 17th c and probably cut from a larger frame.
11” 8 ¾” (27.7 cm 22.2 cm)
Pierre succeeded Boucher in 1770 as First Painter to the King and served in that post until his death.
ID:1959
Roman school of the 17th c, Roman prisoners marching, framed drawing in sanguine on paper with an irregular piece of paper glued at the top, with small rust spots. On the reverse, in sanguine and stump pencil, Antique scene with different figures. A small label “A T” is glued on, with the number 386 in pen, as well as other old annotations in ink.
9 ½” by 12 ¼” (24 cm by 31 cm)
ID:2036
Attributed to Pier Francesco Mola (Coldrerio near Lugano 1612-1666 rome), a framed drawing in pen and sepia ink, and sepia wash, on laid paper, Classical Figures in a Landscape, unsigned; inscribed “Pe F. Mola 1609-1665,” “No 50,” “6,” and “Collection of John Bailey” in pencil on verso; some wear to lower right.
Sheet size: 10 in by 7 ¼ in (25.4 by 18.4 cm)
ID:2190
Charles-Joseph Natoire (Nimes 1700-1777 Castel Gandolfo), Apparition of the Virgin and the Infant before St. Bernard, after the painting in the Church of the Holy Annunciation in Florence by Luca Giordano, in sanguine on prepared laid paper, with an unreadable inscription.
16 ½ by 10 ¾ inches (41.7 by 27.1 cm)
ID:2333
Dutch school of the 17th c., A violent storm at the shore, black chalk with stumping and grey wash on a large sheet of laid paper, some creasing.
28 by 44 cm. (11 by 17 ¼ in.)
The mount carries an attribution to the 17th-18th c. artist Ludolf Bakhuisen, although comparison of this work with Bakhuisen’s oeuvre is not very convincing. More plausible is an attribution to Jacob Abrahamsz Bellevois (Rotterdam 1621 – 1676).
ID:2188
Venitian school, follower of Francesco Guardi (Venice 1712 – 1793), Boats in the lagoon, pen and brown ink and grey wash over an underdrawing in black chalk, on laid paper with an unidentified watermark.
9 by 10 ¾ inches (23 by 27.5 cm)
ID:2194
Flemish school, Juno and her chimeras, black chalk with stumping on laid paper fully set down on an early 18th c French document, circa 1700. On the reverse the collectors mark “(JJS)”, not in Lugt.
10 ½ by 7 in (26.7 by 17.6 cm)
An attribution to Willem van Mieris (1662-1747) has been proposed; the fine (“miniaturist”) detail is characteristic.
ID:2219
Attributed to Jacob Adriansz Backer (Harlingen 1609 – 1651 Amsterdam), Seated woman with a drape, black chalk and stumping with a white wash on beige prepared paper, 17th century, in a pearled giltwood frame, stains.
22 by 29 cm (8 ½ by 11 ½ inches)
Backer, or Baecker, a Dutch golden age painter, who was one of the few of the period who drew the human body from studio poses.
ID:2413
Italian school of the last quarter of the sixteenth c., Saint Michel archangel, pen and brown ink over a black chalk sketch, fully laid down on a backing, an unidentified collector’s mark bottom right. In an 18th c. frame. Slight spotting and insect damage.
16.5 by 7.6 cm (6 ½ by 3 inches)
ID:2414
A drawing from the circle of Louis-Rolland Trinquesse (Paris 1746 – ca. 1800), Woman with a hat, black chalk with white highlights and traces of sanguine on cream paper. Fully laid down on a backing, some tearing, losses and a cut in the lower section, sunstruck, minor insect damage. In a fine contemporary 18th c. frame.
34 by 20 cm. (13 ¼ by 7 ¾ inches)