Pierre Monier (1641-1703)
Pierre Monier (1641-1703)

Moses and the Daughters of Jethro

Details
Pierre Monier (1641-1703)
Moses and the Daughters of Jethro
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white, on light brown paper
257 x 329 mm.
Provenance
Anon sale, Paris, Drouot, 21 December 1926, lot 88 (as Stella).
Sale room notice
An attribution to Sylvain Bonnet (1650-1692) has been suggested.

Lot Essay

By the same hand as two drawings recently with Crispian Riley-Smith, Recent Acquisitions, London, n.d., nos. 1 and 2. Other drawings by Monier, a pupil of Sébastien Bourdon, are in the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, and the Musée d'Angers, P. Rosenberg, 'A drawing by Pierre Monier', The Burlington Magazine, 1985, CXXVII, pp. 786-789.

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