Live auction - Lot 71
[French or Italian school]
Fountain design.
Late 17th or 18th c
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
Drawing, pen and black ink, 23,7 x 31,5 cm, laid paper, unsigned (heavily spotted, some dampstaining in lower and upper sections, vert. crease at left edge).
Stuck under passe-partout, under orn. wooden frame (not studied outside frame).
Four putti, symmetrically grouped around a shell-shaped fountain with a lambs-head. On the upper edge we see seven figure studies of cloaked classical statues.