Live auction - Lot 216
[French school]
Christ and the woman of Samaria.
18th c
€ 150 / 250
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Lot description
Drawing, black chalk, 29,4 x 25,2 cm, laid paper, unsigned.
Mounted on old passe-partout.
Encounter between Christ and the Samaritan woman at the well, set in an Arcadian landscape and a young boy to the right. Executed in a soft atmospheric manner that recalls the technique of mezzotint etching.
Prov. A. Van Loock (coll. stamp, L. 3751).