Lot n° 886
Estimation :
1200 - 1500
EUR
Esprit Antoine GIBELIN (1739-1813) - Lot 886
Esprit Antoine GIBELIN (1739-1813)
"Sorrow rides in rump and gallops with it"
Watercolor and red chalk, signed below, titled on mount
H. 18.5 cm - L. 25.5 cm HVS
"A madman, full of errors, whom trouble accompanies,
And ill in town as well as country,
In vain rides to deceive his boredom;
Sorrow rides in croup, and gallops with him."
"Epître V", Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636-1711)
Étienne Beisson (1759-1820) engraved a composition of the same title after Gibelin in 1788.
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