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Jean-Jacques de Boissieu

Portrait of a Farmhouse, outside Lyon

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Jean-Jacques de Boissieu

(Lyon 1736 – 1810)

A Farmhouse by a Stream, outside Lyon


Pen and brown ink with gray and green wash;

inscribed, verso: Portrait of a House near Lyons by Boissieu of Lyons – I bot it at Lyons for …15 ‘ J Pratviel

178 by 298 mm; 7⅛ by 11¾ in.

J. Pratviel, according to an old inscription, verso;

Achille Chariatte (d.1922), London (L.88a);

William Bateson (1861-1926), London (L.2604a),

his sale, Replica Shoes 's, London, 23 April 1929, lot 130;

with Van Wisselingh, Amsterdam;

Stichting Collectie P. en N. de Boer, Amsterdam,

their sale, London, Christie’s, 4 July 1995, lot 93;

with W.M. Brady & Co., Inc., New York, 1995,

where acquired by Diane A. Nixon

Laren, Singer Museum, Oude Tekeningen, Verzameling P. en N. de Boer, 1966, no. 24;

Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art; Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Drawn to Excellence: Renaissance to Romantic Drawings from a Private Collection, 2012-2013, no. 78 (entry by Andrew Weislogel)