04-11-201204-12-2012
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsMarlborough MA
April 11, 2012 02:00 PMCalender
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Ten Works of Art, Mostly Prints

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$326$275
Auction: Discovery - 2590MLocation: MarlboroughDate / Time: April 12, 2012 10:00AM

Description:

Ten Works of Art, Mostly Prints, including an engraving of Napoleonic soldiers after Alfred Meissonier by Charles Jean Louis Courtry (French, 1846-1897),pencil signed l.r.; an engraving Le Grande Ecurie du roy a Versailles; three color aquatints by J. Chapman of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, King Charles VII, and King Louis XV; a pair of hand-colored lithographs after Henry Alken from Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities, c. 1874; an engraving Diverces vues du chateau royal de marli, by Jean Rigaud; a chromolithograph of a marine scene after C.H. Lewis; and a pen and ink map of the coast of Maine by Robert Dunning Chellis, 1933, inscribed "Commissioned July 1932 at Orono. ME/Finished Feb. 1933 at Cambridge, Mass"; all framed.
Estimate $300-500

Keywords

Alfred Meissonier, Charles Jean Louis Courtry, Charles VII, Frederick Barbarossa, Henry Alken, Emperor, Maine, Robert Dunning Chellis, Jean Rigaud, Cambridge