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

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.