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Lot 2332 Dα

Charles Louis Clerisseau - Two Views of Ancient Rome with Figures

Auction 1197 - overview Cologne
21.05.2022, 14:30 - 19th Century
Estimate: 10.000 € - 15.000 €
Result: 16.250 € (incl. premium)
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Charles Louis Clerisseau

Two Views of Ancient Rome with Figures

Gouache on paper. Each 68 x 54 cm.

In the late 18th century, Charles-Louis Clérisseau was one of the most important artists and intellectuals to whom we owe the emergence of Neoclassicism. In the field of architecture in particular, his drawings of antique buildings and ruins provided the decisive impetus for the style that was to influence architecture throughout Europe, Imperial Russia and the United States around 1800.

Provenance

The Christie-Miller collection, London (?). - Galerie Carroll Munich, acquired in the 1970s. - Subsequently in a South German private collection.

Exhibitions

Académie de France à Rome, Rome, Dijon, Paris 1976, p. 88 illus.