Study of Figures in a Market and Study of a Church
Study of Figures in a Market and Study of a Church
Study of Figures in a Market and Study of a ChurchWatercolour and pencil13.1 by 20.7cm., 5 by 8 in.Patrick Noon suggests this drawing and nos. ? and ? originate from sketchbooks used by Bonington in Dunkerque in late February and early March 1824. Bonington travelled with his friend and fellow artist Alexandre Colin. A group of approximately seventy-seven sketches from this trip were bequeathed to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris by Atherton Curtis. They include similar sketches of daily life in Dunkerque (for examples of these drawings, see Noon, op.cit., nos. 288-299)Provenance:Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, 10th November 1994, lot 61;Yvon Brionnier, Paris until 1998;Paul Prouté, Paris;Private Collection until 2008Literature:Patrick Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington - the Complete Paintings, 2008, no.287, p.347, ill.){kind=link}
Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-1828)
Study of Figures in a Market and Study of a Church
Watercolour and pencil
13.1 by 20.7cm., 5 by 8 in.
Patrick Noon suggests this drawing and nos. ? and ? originate from sketchbooks used by Bonington in Dunkerque in late February and early March 1824. Bonington travelled with his friend and fellow artist Alexandre Colin. A group of approximately seventy-seven sketches from this trip were bequeathed to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris by Atherton Curtis. They include similar sketches of daily life in Dunkerque (for examples of these drawings, see Noon, op.cit., nos. 288-299)
Provenance:
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, 10th November 1994, lot 61;
Yvon Brionnier, Paris until 1998;
Paul Prouté, Paris;
Private Collection until 2008
Literature:
Patrick Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington - the Complete Paintings, 2008, no.287, p.347, ill.