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ITALIAN SCHOOL, 16TH CENTURY
An episode from the life of Pope Saint Gregory the Great (?)
pen and brown ink, brown wash
17¡ x 12¿ in. (44.1 x 30.8 cm)
$2,000-3,000
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LOUIS DE BOULLOGNE (PARIS 1654-1733) This is a study for one of the figures that appear on the right background
A nude study of man seen from the back, clasping to a tree (recto); in Boullogne's composition of The Flood, known from a painted modello
Study of the torso of a male nude with his arm raised (verso) currently on the French art market (Pozzo di Borgo Antique’s, Neuilly). The
with inscription ‘. Boulogne.’ (lower right); and ‘Boulogne’ (verso) artist was born into a family of artists and was a pupil of his father, as was
black chalk, heightened with white, on brown paper, pen and brown ink his brother Bon de Boullogne (1649-1719). His precocity was recognized
framing line when he was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1673; he spent five years in the
16Ω x 10¿ in. (41.5 x 25.8 cm) Italian capital in 1675-1680. On his return to France, he was employed at
Versailles and was received into the French Académie in 1681, becoming
$6,000-8,000
its director in 1722. In 1724 he received the rare honor of being ennobled by
PROVENANCE: Louis XV, before being appointed Premier Peintre du Roi in 1725. Over two
with Seiferheld and Co., New York. hundred of his drawings are preserved at the Louvre (see A. Schnapper and
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 5 June 1982, lot 74.
H. Guicharnaud, Louis de Boullogne, 1654-1733, Paris 1985).

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