Count Auguste de FORBIN (Bouches-du -Rhône 1777- Paris 1841)
View of Jerusalem
Pen and black ink, gray wash and watercolor
Signed with the back of the brush lower left
Located in a cartel lower center in the margin "Vue de Jérusalem prise de la vallée de Joséphat" ("View of Jerusalem from the Valley of Josephat")
40 x 53 cm
(Insolate, folds and stains)
Our drawing was engraved for "Voyage dans le Levant en 1817 et 1818", Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1819, pl. 17.
Forbin reused the same viewpoint in 1825 for a painting in the Louvre (inv 4491).
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