Lot 2
JEAN-JACQUES DE BOISSIEU (FRENCH 1736-1810)
THE VILLAGE MARKET PLACE
Auction: 23 May 2018 at 12:00 BST
£2,000
Description
Signed, pen and ink and coloured wash
Dimensions
33.5cm x 47cm (13.25in x 18.5in)
Footnote
Provenance:Miss Claire Judah and thence by descent
Bought from W.R. Jeudwine Old Master Drawings, 22nd June 1963 for £126.0.0
Claire Judah (1922-2017) was born in Calcutta to a Baghdadi Jewish family. She was educated in England and the proudest time of her life was when she worked as a codebreaker during the war at the famous Hut 8 at Bletchley Park. After the war she began collecting prints, paintings and antiques. Added to those she acquired herself were a number she inherited from her mother and uncle. She worked for a series of MPs in parliament. She never married and was a "third grandmother" to her nieces and nephews.