Lot 70
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François-Léonard Dupont, called Dupont-Watteau (Moorsel 1756-1821 Lille)
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François-Léonard Dupont, called Dupont-Watteau (Moorsel 1756-1821 Lille)

An extensive river landscape with a castle, an artist sketching on the bank in the foreground

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François-Léonard Dupont, called Dupont-Watteau (Moorsel 1756-1821 Lille)
An extensive river landscape with a castle, an artist sketching on the bank in the foreground
signed 'Dupont' (lower left)
oil on canvas
26 x 32 in. (66 x 81.2 cm.)
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The artist gained his soubriquet from his studies in Lille under Louis Watteau, by whom much of his work was strongly influenced, and whose daughter he subsequently married. Primarily a specialist in still life painting, other landscapes known by him include a River landscape with figures before a castle sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 21 June 1960, and a River landscape with figures conversing in the foreground sold, Drouot, Paris, 13 November 1970.

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