Lot n° 15
Estimation :
3000 - 4000
EUR
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Result
: 3 900EUR
Jean-Baptiste LE PRINCE (Metz 1734 - Magny-sur-Marne... - Lot 15 - Daguerre
Jean-Baptiste LE PRINCE (Metz 1734 - Magny-sur-Marne 1781)
Group of Eastern European characters playing with coins
Pen and black ink, brown wash on black pencil lines. Signed and dated lower left 1780.
Stains. 28 x 36,5 cm
Under the protection of the Duke of Belle-Isle, Jean-Baptiste Le Prince went to Paris to perfect his training and join the workshop of François Boucher. Following his separation from Marie Guiton, he left for Russia where several members of his family had settled. He was asked to carry out numerous commissions for the royal chancellery in St. Petersburg, some of which were made directly for Empress Elisabeth. This did not prevent him from traveling extensively throughout the country and crossing many territories where few Western travelers had ventured. Thus, he visited Livonia, Finland, went to Moscow where his half-brother lived, and went as far as Western Siberia.
His realizations of after nature make work of a documentary testimony whose wealth is without equivalent,
in particular thanks to its exactitude in the restitution of the costumes of the various ethnic groups under the Russian Empire.
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