The first drawing depicts a landscape with Apollo dozing and Mercury stealing his bow and his flock. This foreground scene is set against an antique landscape with a temple on the right and a castle in the distance. This mythological scene is based on a composition by Claude Gelée, known as Le Lorrain.
The second drawing depicts a pastoral scene with animals grazing on the banks of a river, two women in antique dress helping a goat. In the background, ancient ruins overgrown with vegetation bear witness to a bygone era. The whole evokes Italian landscapes and compositions by Claude Lorrain (1600-1682), who often painted ruins and idealized scenes of the Italian countryside.
The two sepia-tone watercolor and brown ink wash drawings are in original gilded wooden frames, with a blue passe-partout and the artist's EM monogram, which we have been unable to identify.
Sight size: H.: 48 cm - L.: 68
Delivery
Europe: 100EUR
US/Canada/HK: 200EUR
Rest of the world: On request
- Reference :
- 3509
- Width :
- 87 (cm)
- Height :
- 70 (cm)
- Depth :
- 3 (cm)
- Period::
- 18th century
- Materials:
- paper
