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Project for a Wall Fountain

Gilles-Marie OPPENORD

1672 - 1742

Project for a Wall Fountain

Pen and brown ink, grey wash, on a black chalk sketch
368 × 350 mm
The upper part of the fountain has been cut around, and a paper strip added instead. Thin framing line overall in pen and Indian ink, incised for transfer.

Provenance: Baron Jérôme Pichon (annotated: Bn J Pichon n° 12 / Oppenord and OPPENORD) ; Alfred Beurdeley (1847 – 1919), his stamp (Lugt 421), his sale (3rd) of 1920, May 31st, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, n° 151 ; 1994 sale, March 11th, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, n° 195 ; 1998 sale, November 26th, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, n° 146.

Exhibition: Paris, 1880, n° 284

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