Antoine Dieu (1662-1727)

Saint Benedict casting out the devil from a possessed monk

细节

Antoine Dieu (1662-1727)
Saint Benedict casting out the devil from a possessed monk
red chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash
98 x 274 mm.

来源

The mounter's mark F. Renaud (L. 1042), his mount.
A. de Lafouteuille (?) according to Mr. Normand's inscription on the mount (verso)

拍场告示

Dr, Jennifer Montagu has suggested that the subject is Job tormented by the Devil.

拍品专文

Comparable to drawings by Antoine Dieu illustrated in P. Rosenberg, 'Dieu as a Draughtsman', Master Drawings, 1979, XVII, pp. 161-9, pls. 33-47. Dieu was active in Paris as a painter, although only three pictures are now extant, and as a draughtsman and picture dealer. His shop was called Au grand monarque and was on the Petit-Pont. Pierre-Jean Mariette commented in the Abcdario that 'son extrme facilit de dessiner lui a mis presque continuellement la plume la main'.