Allegory of Messidor

细节

Louis Lafitte (Paris 1770-1828)
Allegory of Messidor
red and white chalk on (faded) blue paper
10 7/8 x 8 3/8 in. (27.4 x 21.4 cm.)

来源

Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 23-25 January 1980, lot 194.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

刻印

Salvatore Tresca (1750?-1815) (see Revolution und Romantik: Französische Druckgraphik des frühen 19. Jahrhundert, exh. cat., Cologne, Wallraf-Richardz Museum, Graphische Sammlung, 1989, no. 185, pl. 8).

注意事项

This lot is offered without reserve.

拍品专文

The subject is the allegorical figure of Messidor, the month on the French revolutionary calendar that corresponds to 19 June through 18 July. Lafitte's drawing is a study for Tresca's engraving for the 1795 calendar.

Allegory of Messidor

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