Live auction - Lot 63
Balloon flight.
18th c
Hammer price: €
500
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
Drawing, hand-coloured, on vellum, diam. 7,5 cm.
In a black wooden frame.
Miniature representing one of the first balloon flights and spectators watching. The first balloon flight was perfomed in Paris in 1783 by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes in a balloon created by the Montgolfier brothers.