Lot Essay
Related to the oil sketch datable to around 1798 formerly in the Germain Seligman collection, J. Richardson, The collection of Germain Seligman, New York, 1979. no. 29. A comparable drawing is at Besanon, Muse des Beaux-Arts, A. Srullaz, Le no-classicisme franais, exhib. cat., Grand Palais, Paris, 1975, no. 75.