Ventes live - Lot 28
The death of Cato the Younger.
Sujet: [French school]
POUSSIN, Nicolas (after). LE BARBIER, Jean-Jacques-François (after)
€ 600 / 800
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Description du lot
18th c
Drawing, pen and black ink, with red wash, 23,5 x 32,8 cm, laid paper, unsigned (old glue marks at upper edge, min. foxing, sm. hole on left side).
Under double-sided passe-partout.
Dramatic scene in an ancient setting with a man on his bed surrounded by a large crowd of mourning figures. Attributed in graphite at lower edge "dessin original de Nicolas Poussin".
On verso: Study sketch of "La magnanimité de Lycurgue" after Jean-Jacques-François le Barbier (1738-1826). Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk.