Conrad Martin Metz 18th.Century Wash Drawing The Penitent Magdalene 1786

Conrad Martin Metz 18th.Century Wash Drawing The Penitent Magdalene 1786Conrad Martin Metz 1749 1827. German School 18th. Century. Penitent Magdalene. Pen, charcoal, ink and wash drawing. Signed with initials lower left and dated 1786. 28 x 43 cms. Provenance: With Thomas Agnew London. Circa. 1972. Metz was born at Bonn, the son of the painter Johann Metz, he moved to London in 1781 to study at the Royal Academy Schools where he became a protg of the celebrated engraver Francesco Bartolozzi. It was under his tutelage that

Multiple figures pen and ink drawing

trimmed to oval with areas of foxing and old worming

He later developed away from the Bamboccianti style and painted history subjects in the classical tradition

Charlet studied under Antoine-Jean Gros (1771-1835)

1894-1979 Red Chalk Portrait Study

Gaetano Apollino Baldassare Vestris (1729-1808)

Some surface grubbiness and old fold far right

5 cms to mounted image

He was a friend of Austin Osmond Spare and helped with his theories of automatic drawing

Provenance Sotheby's London 11/07/1990 lot 34

he also painted portraits and drew vivid genre subjects whose unsentimental approach to everyday life anticipates that of William Hogarth

Black chalk heightened with white on pale blue laid paper