Rare 19th century album amicorum, romantic binding in-4 oblo - Lot 14

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Rare 19th century album amicorum, romantic binding in-4 oblo - Lot 14
Rare 19th century album amicorum, romantic binding in-4 oblong, burgundy long-grained morocco, cold decoration on the boards, spandrels and lateral clasp in gilt metal with motifs of palmettes and foliage scrolls, figures DB [Dubois de Beauchesne ?] in gilt metal in the center of the first board, smooth spine decorated. Provenance : Collection of the ISABEY's descendants. It includes 34 drawings and watercolors and 27 pieces of verse and various autograph fragments. DRAWINGS WATERCOLORS Expert : M. Alexis Bordes - 06 10 80 64 34 - expert@alexis-bordes.com 1. François Alexandre Pernot (Wassy, 1793-1865), Animated landscape of a thatched cottage, castle in ruins and characters, pen and brown ink wash, 16,7 x 23,2 cm, monogrammed in the lower left corner "F.A." and dated 1826. 2. François-Joseph Dupressoir (Paris, 1800-1859), Mountain landscape with a river and a woman carrying faggots, watercolor, ink wash and gum arabic, 15.6 x 21.2 cm, signed and dated "Dupressoir 1828" lower right. 3. Jean-Baptiste Isabey (Nancy, 1767- Paris, 1855), The Sleeping Worker at the Entrance of a Church, pen, brown ink wash over black stone lines, 23 x 16.5 cm, signed and dated "J. Isabey 1821" lower left, annotated in black pencil on the mounting sheet "Chapel of the Church of Graville" (near Le Havre). 4. Carle Vernet (Bordeaux, 1758- Paris, 1836), Rider and Amazon taking refuge under a tree during a storm, pen and brown ink wash and white highlights, 22 x 27.4 cm, signed and dated "Carle Vernet 1825" lower left. 5. Eugène Ciceri (Paris, 1813 - Bourron-Marlotte, 1890), Observatory in ruins at the edge of a cliff animated by two characters looking at the sea, pen and ink wash, watercolor and gum arabic highlights, 20,4 x 26 cm, signed and dated lower left "Ciceri 1825" and countersigned lower right, small foxing. 6. Louis Laffitte (Paris, 1770-1828), Psyche taken by her father to the top of the hill, pen and brown ink wash over black pencil lines, white highlights, 20.3 x 15.5 cm, signed "Laffitte" lower right. Our drawing was translated into an engraving by the artist to be used as a model for the panoramic wallpaper of the Dufour factory telling the story of Psyche today preserved in the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris (inv. HH2) 7. Lancelot-Théodore Turpin de Crissé (Paris, 1782-1859), Deer at the foot of a staircase of a fortified house, brown wash pen over black stone line, Monogrammed T.T and dated 1825 in the middle right on the building, 15,4 x 11,2 cm. 8. Achille Deveria (Paris, 1800-1857), Le Tasse malade reçoit les soins de Léonore (The Sick Cup Receives the Care of Leonore), pen, brown ink wash and gum arabic highlights on black stone lines, 21.6 x 18 cm, annotated in black pencil on the mounting sheet "Le Tasse malade reçoit les soins de Léonore". 9. Alexis-Victor Joly (Paris, 1798-1874), View of a medieval castle in ruins, pen, brown ink wash and gum arabic highlights on black stone lines, 18 x 22 ,5 cm, signed "A. Joly" in the lower right corner. 10. Attributed to Richard Parkes Bonington (Nottingham, 1802- London, 1828), Young woman on a boat crossing a river, pen, brown ink wash and white highlights on black stone lines, 12,7 x 8,8 cm, monogrammed RPB at the bottom right. 11. Jacques-Louis David (Paris, 1748- Brussels, 1825), Study for the figure of Brutus seated (unpublished), preparatory to the work Les licteurs rappent à Brutus les corps de ses fils (Paris, Musée du Louvre, inv. 3693). Pen and gray ink wash over black stone lines on laid paper, 17.7 x 11.5 cm, monogrammed lower left in pen and numbered 65 upper middle, annotated in black stone "Do not forget to make the figure more turned in profile so that one sees (?) better the expression (?) of the head. (Related works: Pierre Rosenberg, Louis-Antoine Prat, Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825: catalog raisonné des dessins, Leonardo Arte, Milan, 2002, Tome I, cat. 93 and cat. 94, p. 106). 12. Copley Fielding (Sowerby, 1787- Worthing, 1855), River Landscape with Fisherman and Cows, pen, ink wash, and watercolor, 11.3 x 16.6 cm, signed and dated 1824 lower right, spotting and foxing. 13. Attributed to Honoré Albert de Luynes (Paris, 1802- Rome, 1867), Two Young Girls at Prayer in a Church Interior, pen, brown ink wash over black stone lines, 16.6 x 11.6 cm, small missing corners lower left and upper right. 14. François Marius Granet (Aix-en-Provence, 1775 -1849), View of the House of Melastasio in Assisi, pen and brown ink, 12.4 x 11.9 cm, signed "Granet" near the middle right. 15. Auguste-Xavier Leprince (Paris, 1799- Nice, 1826), Le repos des paysans pendant les fenaisons, pen and brown ink wash over black stone lines and white highlights, 20 x 31,8 cm, signed and dated "A.X. Leprince 1823" at the bottom left on
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