Claude Audran II (1639-1684)

The Judgment of Paris

Details

Claude Audran II (1639-1684)
The Judgment of Paris
with inscription 'Le Sueur' (verso)
black lead, pen and brown ink, brown wash, squared in black chalk
304 x 187 mm.

Provenance

Comte A.N. Thibaudeau.
Lodoîx Monnier; Lyon, 15-26 March, 1906, lot 906, as Cornelis Lens.
Nicos Dhikeos (his mark, not in Lugt).

Lot Essay

A large group of drawings by Claude Audran II is at the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. They were acquired along with the studio drawings of Audran's nephew at the latter's death in 1734 by Carl Johan Cronstedt, P. Bjurström, French Drawings, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Stockholm, 1976, nos. 90-112, illustrated.

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