Jean Baptiste Claude Chatelain 1710-1758 18th.Century Pen and Ink Landscape Drawing, Travellers on a country road. Circa.1740. Executed on laid paper laid on to original mount. Some time related staining and edge damages. 20.5 by 16.5 cms image. 27.2 by 23.2 cms on mount overall.
One of the finest imaginative landscape draughtsmen working in London in the mid 18th.Century. Chatelain was greatly influenced by fellow Frenchman Claude Lorrain, he is considered to be one of the founding fathers of the British landscape watercolour tradition.