FRANÇOIS-JOSEPH FOULQUIER (TOULOUSE 1744-1789 SAINT PIERRE, MARTINIQUE)

FRANÇOIS-JOSEPH FOULQUIER (TOULOUSE 1744-1789 SAINT PIERRE, MARTINIQUE)
Design for an urn on a ledge
signed and dated: ‘dessiné et inventé par j. f. foulquier 1774’
with inscription: 'Inventé et DesSiné par j.f. foulquier 1774/ Pour la chaise de Mad.e Vialettes de Mortarieu / Dona di Montalbano / Jr. church streets’
black chalk, pen and brown ink and yellow watercolour, indistinct watermark, pricked for transfer
15 3⁄4 x 10 1⁄4 in. (40 x 26.2 cm.); together with AFTER JEAN-BAPTISTE PILLEMENT (LYON 1728-1808), Chinoiseries with youths mounted on ostriches, graphite, 11 1⁄2 x 8 3⁄8 in. (29.3 x 21.2 cm.)
(2)

Provenance
(i) Unidentified collector, France (his mark, L. 1953b).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 11 January 1989, lot 144.
with Galerie Perrin, Paris, 1989.
(ii) with Galerie Perrin, Paris, 1989.