Toussaint Dubreuil (Paris 1562-1602)
Toussaint Dubreuil (Paris 1562-1602)

Lot's wife looking back at the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah

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Toussaint Dubreuil (Paris 1562-1602)
Lot's wife looking back at the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white on light brown paper, a loss made up on the left
8½ x 10½ in. (215 x 267 mm.)
Provenance
A. Normand (L. 153a).

Lot Essay

Similar in technique to a drawing at the Rijksmuseum, identified by K.G. Boon and exhibited in Paris, Grand Palais, L'école de Fontainbleau, 1972, no. 106. Other sheets, related to a series of tapestry designs for L'histoire de Diane, are in the Louvre (J. Guiffrey and P. Marcel, Inventaire Général des dessins du Musée du Louvre et du Musée de Versailles: Ecole Française, Paris, V, 1910, nos. 3680-4).

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