Author: Jean Cotelle the Elder (1607 - 1676) [?]
Title: Antique drawing | Design for a ceiling, ca. 1670, partly coloured, 1 p.
Description: Design for a ceiling.Very charming wide drawing divided in two sections with a decorative progression: from a sketch of the basic lines to the most complete outlook of the designed, filled in with colors.Other drawings with a very similar compositional scheme are to be found at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford (i.e. WA1925.298.56 / .72 / .111).With the address of, possibly, one of the collectors of this drawing, stamped on the bottom left corner: CLAUDE DAVID ARCHITECT DECORATEUR 11 RUE POISSONIÈRE PARIS.Collector’s mark on bottom right corner: Lodewijk Arnold Houthakker (1926-2008) [L.3893].Scarce is the available information on this artist. He appears [as Claude-Jules or Jules-Claude David] among the artists listed in the catalogue of the World's Fair of 1889 [nrs. 2247 to 2250] with the designs of the Hotel de la Banque Cordier, in Rue Chauchat in Paris (1880), the Hôtellerie du Lyon d'Or: salle des festins(1882), the Hôtel de M. le baron J. de R...:  grand salon Louis XIV (1888), and the Restitution du château d'Echoisy (Charente).[NL] Ontwerp voor een plafond. Pen, ink, pencil, brush and wash in many colors on paper; total: 342 x 418 mm; some damages due to folding of the paper, some traces of handling, though overall in fair condition. Rare.

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