Live auction - Lot 23
[Italian school]
A fantastic palace by a canal: design for a theatre (?).
18th c
Hammer price: €
450
€ 500 / 700
Live bidding (Drouot*) Live bidding (Invaluable*)Bidding is closed
Lot description
Red chalk, brown ink, 19,7 x 30,7 cm, laid paper (few sm. creases).
Good condition. Laid down on paper. Under passe-partout.
Accomplished design for a Venetian palazzo.
Prov. Lord Northwick and by descent at Northwick Park to Captain Edward George Spencer-Churchill (1876-1964), army officer and cousin to Sir Winston Churchill (auction catalogue). - London, Sotheby's, 18.11.1919, lot 44. - London, Christie's, 5.12.2006, The Oppé collection, lot 48 (as Venetian school).