A preparatory drawing for the print, in reverse, of Cardinal de Richelieu's epitaph which hung on the wall of the Cardinal's tomb in the church of the Sorbonne. The print was published some time after the Cardinal's death in 1642 by Duchange, and in later editions by Martinot and the widow of Chéreau (fig. 1). The eulogy to Richelieu found in the print is, however, replaced in the drawing by a later 18th Century inscription, attributing the drawing to Audran, which was probably added by the brother of a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Descamps, head of the Ecole Centrale de Peinture et de Dessin at Rouen