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Ingemar Sunesson

(Sweden)
Estimate
60 000 - 70 000 SEK
5 780 - 6 740 EUR
6 650 - 7 750 USD
Hammer price
48 000 SEK
Bidding requires special pre approval.
Purchasing info
For condition report contact specialist
Johan Jinnerot
Stockholm
Johan Jinnerot
Specialist Art, Head specialist Old Masters
+46 (0)739 400 801
Ingemar Sunesson
(Sweden)

"Staden Alexandrias grundläggning" (= The foundation of the city Alexandria)

Line engraving with handcolouring 57 x 92 cm.

Exhibitions

The Royal Swedish Academy of fine arts, Stockholm, 1806, catalogue no 97. ("Staden Alexandrias anläggning")

Literature

Emil Hultmark, "Kungl Akademiens för de fria konsterna utställningar 1794-1887", 1935, listed p. 273.
Nils G Wollin, "Desprez i Sverige", SAK, 1936, compare ill. 212, p. 247, no 60, p. 254.
Ulf Cederlöf (ed.), "Louis Jean Desprez - Tecknare, Teaterkonstnär, Arkitekt", 1992, compare ill. p. 39, catalogue no 23. (Desprez akvarell NMH 51/1874:87)

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