Heroic Drawing by Fontaine Goes Back to the Louvre

Result EUR44,800

Published on 21 June 2021, by Anne Doridou-Heim

Auction on 11 June 2021 - 11:00 (CEST) - 33 avenue de Friedland - 75008 Paris

It is only fitting that this work by Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine has returned to the museum for which it was made: the Louvre.

Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762-1853), Vue de la salle du Héros combattant... Heroic Drawing by Fontaine Goes Back to the Louvre

Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762-1853), Vue de la salle du Héros combattant et du Tibre au musée du Louvre (View of the Room of the Fighting Hero and the Tiber), c. 1817, watercolor, pen and black ink, 29.5 x 32.5 cm/11.61 x 12.80 in.
Result: €44,800

Some acquisitions are more meaningful than others. It was hard to imagine any other destination for this watercolor by Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine than the Louvre. For €44,800, the museum bought the drawing Fontaine made…

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