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Baron Jean-Baptiste Regnault (Paris 1754-1829)
- The Origin of Painting, or Dibutade tracing the profile of the shepherd; and The Origin of Sculpture, or Pygmalion and Galatea

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Baron Jean-Baptiste Regnault (Paris 1754-1829)
The Origin of Painting, or Dibutade tracing the profile of the shepherd; and The Origin of Sculpture, or Pygmalion and Galatea
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    £8,000 - £12,000
  • ($12,152 - $18,228)

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Sale 7918
Living with Design: The Collections of Walter Lees and Mr NC.
16 July 2010
London, King Street

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Baron Jean-Baptiste Regnault (Paris 1754-1829)
The Origin of Painting, or Dibutade tracing the profile of the shepherd; and The Origin of Sculpture, or Pygmalion and Galatea
both signed 'Regnault'
black chalk, pen and black ink, brown wash, one with fragmentary watermark
6½ x 8½ in. (17.2 x 21.5 cm.)
a pair (2)

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Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Monaco, 5 December 1991, lot 73.

Lot Notes

Preparatory studies, with some differences, for a pair of overdoors commissioned by Louis XVI in 1785 for the Salon des Nobles de la Reine at Versailles, where they remain today (Figs. 1 and 2).

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