421. LOUIS JEAN DESPREZ. Attributed to. Sketch for altarpiece, washed drawing, 61.5 x 44 cm.

LOUIS JEAN DESPREZ Auxerre, France 1743-1804 Stockholm, attributed Sketch for altarpiece with inscription "Altar Tafla Desenge af Dupreés, given to the artist Elfström as his Eleve".
Washed drawing, sheet size 61.5 x 44 cm.

On the back of the leaf, ink drawing representing a facade with eight Doric columns, tympanum field and round-arched arcade.
Compare the ink drawing with Desprez's drawing "Proposal to naumachia, side facade", which is in the Royal Library's collection, depicted in Nils G. Wollin's book; Desprez in Sweden, Louis Jean Desprez's activities 1784-1804, from 1936, plate 235.

Carl Peter Elfström (born 1774, year of death unknown), was a painter and draftsman. He participated with ornament drawing and figure drawing in the Art Academy's exhibitions in 1794 and 1795 and also executed portraits.