Live auction - Lot 38
[Liège school]
2 landscapes with villages on top of hills and trees in the foreground.
18th c
€ 400 / 500
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Lot description
Wash drawings, grey ink, 20 x 32 cm, laid paper, both signed.
Stuck by corners under passepartout.
Hanson (Liège 1731-1769) was a dialectical poet, engraver and the official painter (only 1 painting known) of the cathedral St-Lambert of Liège. He is best known for his quite conventional but vaguely romantic engravings. Ref. Piron, Maurice.- "Jean-Jospeh Hanson, peintre, graveur et poète liégeois du XVIIIe s." in Bulletin de la société des bibliophiles liègeois. Liège, 1976, t. XXII, pp. 47-80. Prov. [Georges Petit].