Toussaint Dubreuil (1561-1602)
Toussaint Dubreuil (1561-1602)

Lot's wife looking back towards the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah

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Toussaint Dubreuil (1561-1602)
Lot's wife looking back towards the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white
215 x 267 mm.

Lot Essay

Similar in technique to a drawing at the Rijksmuseum, identified by K.G. Boon and exhibited in Paris, Grand Palais, L'cole de Fontainebleau, 1972, no. 106. Other sheets, related to a series of tapestry designs for L'histoire de Diane, are at the Louvre, J. Guiffrey and P. Marcel, Inventaire Gnral des dessins du Muse du Louvre et du Muse de Versailles: Ecole Franaise, Paris, V, 1910, nos. 3680-4. Toussaint Dubreuil favoured obscure subjects such as the present one. The importance of the landscape to the composition, the elegance of pose and of drapery, along with subtle references to the compositions of the first School of Fontainebleau, corroborate this attribution.

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