21. German School, early 19th c., “Mother” and “Daughter”, pair of pastels on paper, unsigned, period handwritten and Sotheby’s Chicago labels en verso, each sight 15 1/2 in. x 12 1/2 in., framed.
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$800/1200 22. Claude Marion the Younger (French, 18th c.), “A Parisien or Ilede-France Gateway to a Ducal Property”, 1771, ink, grisaille wash and watercolor on paper watermarked with fleur-de-lis in crowned cartouche, and with countermark of “D & C” Blaum” as papermakers, inscribed “Marion fils en 1771” at lower center, 18 1/2 in. x 26 1/8 in. $1000/1500
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23. School or Follower of Claude Joseph Vernet (French, 1714-1789), “Shipwreck on the South Italian Coast”, grisaille watercolor on laid paper, watermarked with the classic “CCC” of standard Venetian 18th c. paper, unsigned, 13 3/4 in. x 19 in., in a modern mat with attribution, title and size in pencil en verso of mat and again on drawing.
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$2000/3000 Provenance: James R. Lamantia, Jr., New Orleans and New York. Note: This superb drawing is very close to the magnificent “Shipwreck” of 1772 by Vernet at the National Gallery of Art in Washington (acc. no. 2000.22.1.), showing in reverse the same ships at sea and foundering on rocks, the same radiant sun, the same castellated shore, and very similar figures. A sometimes overregular idiosyncrasy in the draftsmanship, however, suggests that this example is perhaps more likely to be a version of Vernesque elements by a contemporary or even slightly posthumous hand. 24. Follower of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780-1867), “Portrait of a Man, Facing Right”, mid-19th c., black chalk on cream-colored paper with ruled border, pierced along left edge, with faint but untranslatable watermark, unsigned, but initialed within bottom of image “J [or JA?]”; and inscribed in a 20th c. hand in pencil at bottom of mount, “Ingres—Esquisse d’album”, 5 x 3 7/8 in., in a mid-20th c. mount. $800/1200 23
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Provenance: Probably H. R. Stirlin, Saint-Prez, Switzerland (sold by him, 1960); definitely art market, Rome, 1961; purchased there by James R. Lamantia Jr., New Orleans and New York.