Abraham Louis Rodolphe Ducros - The Aqueduct under the Villa of Maecenas in Tivoli - image-1

Lot 2211 Dα

Abraham Louis Rodolphe Ducros - The Aqueduct under the Villa of Maecenas in Tivoli

Auction 1221 - overview Cologne
20.05.2023, 14:00 - 19th Century
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 6.930 € (incl. premium)

Abraham Louis Rodolphe Ducros

The Aqueduct under the Villa of Maecenas in Tivoli

Watercolour over pencil. 50.5 x 70 cm.
Framed under glass.

The attribution to Johann Friedrich August Tischbein in the cited catalogue of the Goethe Museum in Düsseldorf from 2005 is not tenable. It is possible that these two watercolours are works by the Swiss painter Ducros, who lived in Italy from 1776 onwards and mainly executed comparably large-format sheets that are very often unsigned. Ducros painted the motif of Maecenas' villa several times.
We would like to thank Dr Claudia Nordhoff for her helpful advice in cataloguing these two watercolours.