Live auction - Lot 30
[Dutch school]
Lady with a basket.
[The Hague, ca. 1780]
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
Drawing, brush and grey wash with traces of graphite, 22,5 x 17 cm, laid paper with watermark of 1778 (Pro Patria, similar to Churchill: 426), signed in pen and brown ink at lower left corner "F. Xaverij f." (some min. foxing).
Stuck by upper corners under passe-partout.
Franciscus Xaverius Xavery (1740-1788) was the son of the Dutch sculptor Jean-Baptiste Xavery, and worked in The Hague where he specialised in landscapes.