LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pierre noire, pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash, white highlights (partially oxidized), on brown paper

Measurements:

18.98 in. (48.20 cm.) (height) by 39.53 in. (100.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Le Paon del 1776 ad nat'

Exhibited:

Paris, Salon de la Correspondance, 1779. New York, The New York Cultural Center, Collectors Anonymous : Four Private New York Collections, 1965.

Literature:

P. de Nolhac, 'Le Peintre Le Paon', L'Art, vol. 60, 1901, p. 497. O. Aaron, Dessins insolites du XVIIIe français, Paris, 1985, p. 30.

Provenance:

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild. Saisi par la Gestapo. Rendu à Clarice de Rothschild après 1946. Seiferheld and Co., New York. Christian Hummann, New York; Sotheby's, New York, 30 avril 1982, lot 53. Avec Didier Aaron; New York, Galerie Didier Aaron, French Master Drawings, 1984, no. 26.