Count Auguste de FORBIN (Bouches-du -Rhône 1777- Paris 1841) View of Jerusalem Pen and black ink, gray wash and watercolor Signed with the back of the brush lower left Located in a cartel lower center in the margin "Vue de Jérusalem prise de la vallée de Joséphat" ("View of Jerusalem from the Valley of Josephat") 40 x 53 cm (Insolate, folds and stains) Our drawing was engraved for "Voyage dans le Levant en 1817 et 1818", Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1819, pl. 17. Forbin reused the same viewpoint in 1825 for a painting in the Louvre (inv 4491).