Details
Charles Parrocel (1688-1752)

The Head of a Man with a Moustache, wearing a hat, looking downward to the left (recto); Study of Figures duelling (verso)

black, red, and yellow chalk, on grey paper, watermark encircled device 272 x 195mm.
Provenance
J.P. Heseltine, recorded in 1973
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, 22 March 1973, lot 41, illustrated, as Italian School, 17th Century (#1700 to Woodner)

Lot Essay

A study for the head of the cavalryman turning around in his saddle in a picture of a Military Encampment recorded in a photograph in the Witt Library. A study of the two soldiers on the right of the picture is in the British Museum, see France in the eighteenth century, no. 531

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