拍品 153
153
French School, 17th Century
French School, 17th Century

The curtain of an operatic stage with Apollo and Mercury, the Royal Arms of France above: Design for the frontispiece of a thesis

細節
French School, 17th Century
The curtain of an operatic stage with Apollo and Mercury, the Royal Arms of France above: Design for the frontispiece of a thesis
black chalk, pen and brown and grey ink, grey wash, watermark B heart /C and fragmentary device
424 x 526 mm.
拍場告示
Marijn Schapelhouman has kindly pointed out that this drawing is by Jan Goeree (1670-1731).

拍品專文

Comparable in style to a frontispiece design by Charles Le Brun in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (J. Bean, 15th-18th Century French Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1986, p. 146, no.157). The Le Brun drawing, which was engraved by Michel Lasné in 1642, shares with the present sheet a crisp modelling of forms achieved through a theatrical sense of light.