"Fontaine P. François Léonard (1762-1853) 2 Notebooks/albums +50 Drawings Each/ Various Subjects"
Pierre François Léonard Fontaine (1762-1853). Two sketchbooks containing landscape sketches, scenes of contemporary life, Napoleonic subjects, mythological subjects...
- 1st sketchbook, annotated on the first page: "Drawings by P F L Fontaine," circa 1840, containing 53 drawings in pen and brown wash.
Dimensions: H 10.3 x W 15.5 cm.
- 2nd sketchbook, containing 50 drawings in pen and brown wash.
Dimensions: H 9.5 x W 15.5 cm.
SEE:
- An identical album composed of 49 drawings and washes, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Maître Mathias & Morel, April 29, 2008.
- Another similar album of 51 drawings at Artus Enchères, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, June 27, 2003. Also of note in this same sale is a valuable travel journal by Fontaine: "Voyage à Anvers".
- A watercolor in a similar style, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, March 1962, Fontaine, excerpt from his diary by one of his great-granddaughters, page 162.
- A drawing at Maître Ader, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, May 10, 1995, Lot 107.
- Two similar drawings (from a collection of drawings belonging to Fontaine's heirs) were sold at Maître Binoche & Godeau, March 22, 1991, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Lot 22, page 22 and Lot 62, page 45.
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