4 drawings.

Pen and brown ink, grey and brown wash, brown framing lines, 9,0 x 17,5 cm to 17,8 x 19,4 cm, laid paper, apocryphally (?) pencil signed (occ. light spotting, marg. glue stains, 1 sm. loss in corner with large tear, 1 stuck to passe-partout).

4 mounted by corners on paper support.

Skillfully drawn views of Rome depicting "Ponte dei Quattro capi", "Ponte San Bartolomeo", "Porte des colonata e del Vaticano" and "Ingresso del monasterio si San Cosimato Trastevere". François (Namur 1771-1851) was a Belgian painter who completed his artistic training with a "Grand Tour" in Rome, where he stayed between 1789 and 1792. These drawings probably date from this Rome sojourn. After his return François would become one of the main representatives of Neoclassicism in Belgium. He taught painting at the Art Academy of Brussels, where he trained Madou and Navez.