Lot 123
123
Claude Audran II* (1639-1684)

A draped female Figure kneeling

Details
Claude Audran II* (1639-1684)
A draped female Figure kneeling
black and white chalk, brown wash on light brown paper, the corners cut
11½ x 8 3/8 in. (291 x 213 mm.)
Provenance
B. West (L. 419), his mount.
B.G. Windus, according to an inscription on the mount.

Lot Essay

The present drawing is comparable in technique to a group of drawings by Audran in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, P. Bjurström, French Drawings, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Stockholm, 1976, nos. 90-112, illustrated.