Live auction - Lot 332
Sketchbook with drawings and engravings.
1799-1821
Hammer price: €
2.200
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
8vo: 59 ff. (some pages cut).
Contemp. blue cardboard binding (sl. worn).
Large collection of drawings, watercolours and engravings mainly by Le Gros, Théaulon, Mabeck, Le May, Le Roy, De Ghendt, Portman, Wieilh, Ingouf, de Longueil, etc. depicting portraits, landscapes, interiors (some located in Brussels and Engien), animals, popular imagery, etc. A transcribed poem about dogs by Léon Halévy is included. Legros (Versailles 1754-Enghien 1834) was a French poet, writer, painter, watercolourist, draftsman and engraver who worked in the Austrian Netherlands.