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DAY & FABER master drawings

    Jean-Baptiste Oudry (Paris 1686 - Beauvais 1755)

    Staircase and balustrade: the passage from the large parterre of the Faisanderie to the upper terrace, Prince de Guise’s château at Arcueil

    Description:

    about 1744-1747
    black chalk with light heightening of white chalk on blue paper
    257 x 207 mm

    Provenance:

    Collection of Jean-Denis Lempereur (1701-1779), his stamp lower right [L. 1740]
    his sale, 24 May 1773, part of lots 670 to 672 or 675
    Collection of Marquis de Chennevières (1820-1899),
    His sale, 5 and 6 May 1898, lot 133 
    Collection of Louis Deglatigny (1854-1936), his stamp lower left [L. 1768a]
    His third sale, 14-15 June 1937, lot 169
    Sale of Maître Chapelle, Versailles, 24 November 1963, lot 10
    Private Collection, France
     

    Literature

    Opperman, Hal, J.B.Oudry, 1977, New York, (revised and expanded edition of his 1972 thesis), no. D1096
    Prat, L. A., Lhinares, L., "La collection Chennevières", 2007 (Paris : Musée du Louvre Editions), no. 833, p.433
     

    Note:

    This drawing was made by Oudry as a study for a larger drawing held in the Getty Museum, one of the finest in a series of drawings, numbering some fifty sheets, that he made between 1744 and 1747 in the abandoned gardens of the Prince de Guise’s château at Arcueil.

    Staircase and balustrade: the passage from the large parterre of the Faisanderie to the upper terrace, Prince de Guise’s château at Arcueil