Carle VERNET (Bordeaux, 1758 - Paris, 1836)
The Deliverance of Corsica, 29 Vendemiaire Year 5, October 21, 1797
Pen and India ink, grey wash and white gouache highlights.
Signed and dated lower right: "Carles Vernet year 6".
(Glued in full, slightly insolated).
23,3 x 34,9 cm
Provenance:
- Former collection Germain Seligman (1893-1978), art dealer, art critic, expert and collector, New York, his stamp lower right.
- Former collection Count Christian Humann-Guilleminot (1929-1981).
- His sale, Sotheby's, New York, June 12, 1982, n° 145.
- Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 27 November 1991, n° 192.
Preparatory study for the etching by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux (1747-1818).
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