Sevres Egyptian Service Plate “Ruines d’Oxirincus a Bénécê”

Sevres Egyptian Service Plate 12



Ruines d’Oxirincus a Bénécê.
A drawing (print study) for Plate 31 of the Baron Dominique Vivant Denon’s ‘Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte, pendant les campagnes du Général Bonaparte’, 1802; a ruined column with decorative capital on a hill in the foreground, figures to right, a town beyond. Pen and grey ink, with grey wash.

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