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.