Live auction - Lot 98
[French]
"La culbute".
Paris, François Basan, 1766
Hammer price: €
260
€ 200 / 250
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Lot description
Aquatint in brown, 30 x 43 cm, laid paper, signed "Charpentier Sculp". (some dark and dusty smudges, mostly in margin).
Young man falling down the stairs and grasping a girl who is being painted. The easel falls over and the painter sprawls backwards at the right.
Ref. IFF 37.
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