Count Auguste de FORBIN (1777-1841) View of Jerusalem Pen... Lot 12

Count Auguste de FORBIN (1777-1841) 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" (insolated, folds and stains) 40 x 53 cm Our drawing was engraved for "Voyage dans le Levant en 1817 et 1818", Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1819, pl. 17. Forbin reused this same view in 1825 for a painting in the Louvre (inv 4491).