Lieven CRUYL (1634- before 1720). Construction... - Lot 27 - Métayer-Mermoz Maison de Ventes aux Enchères Nevers

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Lieven CRUYL (1634- before 1720). Construction... - Lot 27 - Métayer-Mermoz Maison de Ventes aux Enchères Nevers
Lieven CRUYL (1634- before 1720). Construction of the Pont Neuf du Louvre, Paris, June 1686. Pencil, brown ink and ink wash. Signed and dated: LIVINVS CRUYL PBR PATRICIVS GANDAVENSIS FECIT / PARISIIS ANNO M.DC.L.XXXVII, MENSE JVNIO And inscribed: PROSPECTVS SVBSTRVCTIONIS PONTIS LVPARAE IN FLUMINIS ALVEO Ao M.DC.LXXXVI PARISIIS / PERFECTAE, LOCORVMQVE CIRCVMIACENTIVM. / REPRESENTATION DE LA FONDATION DU PONT DU LOUVRE ACHEVEE L'AN MDCLXXXVI. On reverse, label in pencil and brown ink: "...acour à St. Fargeau / dessin à la plume / ...d'Erection du Pont royal en 1686 / par Livinus Cruyl". H_60 cm L_85 cm Provenance : Probably commissioned by Michel Le PELETIER de SOUZY (1640-1725), Director General of Fortifications under Louis XIV. LACOUR family, Saint Fargeau, Yonne. By descent, Yvonne LACOUR and Adolphe WATTINE. Then by descent to the current owner. Bibliography : E. Mareuse, 'Trois vues de Paris de Lieven Cruyl', Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de Paris et de l'Ile de France, 1919, pp. 64-71, reproduced (a copy of the bulletin will be given to the purchaser). F. Lugt, Bibliothèque nationale. Cabinet des Estampes. Inventaire général des dessins des écoles du Nord, Paris 1936, p. 77, nos. 277 and 278; F. Lugt, Musée du Louvre. Inventaire général des dessins des écoles du Nord. Ecole flamande, Paris 1949, vol. I, p. 46, no. 549; B. Jatta, Lieven Cruyl e la sua opera grafica, Brussels/Rome, 1992, p. 145, no. 108 D, reproduced fig. 136
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