Marty de Cambiaire

Jean-Simon BERTHÉLÉMY

(Laon 1743 – Paris 1811)

Funeral rite at the foot of a staircase leading to a pyramid

Black chalk, sanguine, stump, black pencil. Fine framing lines in pen and black ink. Signed and dated in pen and brown ink Berthelemy 1774 at the bottom centre.
435 x 303 mm

Provenance

Lyon, collection of M. Lemaître, 1883

Exhibition

Laon, 1883, Société académique de peintures, gravures, médailles et faïences, p. 172, n° 12.

Bibliography

Nathalie Volle, Jean-Simon Berthélemy, peintre d’histoire (1743- 1811), Paris, Arthena, 1979, p. 112, n° 134