{"product_id":"hubert-francois-gravelot-chalk-drawing-dido-on-her-funeral-pyre","title":"Hubert-François Gravelot Chalk Drawing Dido On Her Funeral Pyre Circa.1739","description":"\u003cp\u003eHubert-François Bourguignon, known as 'Gravelot' 1699-1773 French School 18th.Century. Chalk drawing on laid paper \"Dido On Her Funeral Pyre.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mount inscribed 'Improbe amor, quid non mortalia pectora cogis' and 'Illustration pour le livre IV. de l’Eneide\/Mort de Didon sur son bucher. Iris à droite coupe avec des cixeaux\/le cheveu qui retient encore la Reine à la vie.\/…sic ait et dextra crinem secat' 10.5 by 9 cms oval. 39 by 28 cms overall. Laid to backing sheet central vertical fold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eProvenance: \u003c\/span\u003eProbably Marie-Joseph-Colombe-Henri-Denis Beccaria de Pavie, Marquis de Fourquevaux (1762-1841);\u003cbr\u003eprobably Emmanuel Bocher (1835-1919), Paris;\u003cbr\u003eLéon Olry-Roederer (1869-1932), Paris, (on his typical ‘Gravelot’ mount with gold, red and green borders);\u003cbr\u003eSotheby’s, London, 21 October 1984, lot 484.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis work is believed to be a preliminary design for the tailpiece to Canto IV of Theobald's translation of the 'Aeneid', 1739. A more finished, signed, pen and ink version of the composition set within a rococo cartouche, with an identical inscription, 'Improbe Amor! quid non mortalia\/pectora cogis?\u003cem\u003e'\u003c\/em\u003e, is in the British Museum (Museum no. 1889,0724.87).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patrick Boyd-Carpenter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63838720033145,"sku":null,"price":680.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/0291\/6033\/files\/20260626-112831.jpg?v=1782471564","url":"https:\/\/www.pbcfineart.co.uk\/products\/hubert-francois-gravelot-chalk-drawing-dido-on-her-funeral-pyre","provider":"Patrick Boyd-Carpenter","version":"1.0","type":"link"}