Lot Essay
A preparatory study for the cavalryman in Tancred and Clorinda, dated 1722 at Besançon, J.-L. Bordeaux, François Le Moyne and his Generation 1688-1737, Paris, 1984, no. P.33, fig. 29. Figure studies for the composition are in the Louvre, formerly with Cailleux and in a Paris private collection, Bordeaux, op. cit., nos. D. 46-9, figs. 174-7