Lot Essay
Drawings of Quo Vadis? and the Death of Dido at Stockholm are comparable, both in handling and figure type with the present study, P. Bjurström, French Drawings, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Stockholm, 1976, nos. 140-1, both illustrated. The study of the Death of Dido is related to Blanchet's decoration of La Grande Salle of the Hôtel-de-Ville, Lyon, begun in 1658 and destroyed by fire in 1674