Claude Saint-Paul, called Claude Simpol
The Baptism of Christ
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Claude Saint-Paul, called Claude Simpol
(Clamecy circa 1666 - 1716 Paris)
The Baptism of Christ
Oiled black chalk and gray wash, extensively heightened with white, on paper partly washed brown, the landscape in pen and brown ink
253 by 175 mm; 10 by 6⅞ in.
We are grateful to François Marandet for pointing out that although it has long been thought that Simpol died in 1716, Hélène Denis was already referred to as his widow in January 1711, so that the artist must have died no later than 1710.
Sale, London, Phillips, 8 July 1992, lot 171 (as Circle of Cirro [sic] Ferri),
Ralph Holland (1917-2012), Newcastle upon Tyne,
his posthumous sale London, Sotheby's, 5 July 2013, lot 316 (as Roman School, 17th Century);
with W.M. Brady & Co., Inc., New York, Old Master and 19th-Century Drawings and Oil Sketches, 2014, no. 14,
where acquired by Diane A. Nixon.
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