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Property from an Important Private Collection

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

Study of a Tree

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection


Christian Willem Ernst Dietrich

Weimar 1712–1774 Dresden

Study of a Tree


traces of a signature in pen and brown ink: Dietrich

red chalk

221 by 313 mm

Alliance des Arts (L.61);

Private collection, Paris,

sale, Paris, Christie's, 1 April 2011, lot 64,

where acquired by the present owner

A. Ananoff, L'oeuvre dessinée de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806). Catalogue raisonné, Paris 1961-70, II, no. 963 (as J.-H. Fragonard)

The composition of the present work is also known through a red chalk drawing by Hubert Robert, which appeared on the London art market in 2001.1


1 Sale, London, Christie's, 10 July 2001, lot 114