Michel Corneille II (1601/3-1664)

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Michel Corneille II (1601/3-1664)

Studies of women's Heads

black and white chalk, three of the heads are red chalk offsets retouched with white chalk, on blue paper
217 x 301mm.

Provenance

A.J. Dezallier d'Argenville (L. 2951, where incorrectly identified as Crozat)
Wellesley Collection
Bradbury Collection, according to inscriptions on the mount

Lot Essay

The present drawing and the following lot are typical examples of Corneille's sheets of studies. Similar examples are in the Louvre, Munich, Stockholm and the Louis-Antoine Prat Collection, P. Rosenberg, Masterful Studies, Three Centuries of French Drawings from the Prat Collection, New York, 1990, no. 27, illustrated

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