Lot Essay
Closely comparable hunting and fishing scenes are in the long series of landscapes, inspired by Carracci drawings in the Jabach Collection, now in the Louvre (J. Guiffrey and P. Marcel, Inventaire Général des Dessins du Musée du Louvre: Ecole française, II, Paris, 1948, nos. 2622-2644). Michel Corneille II went to Rome in 1659, returning to Paris to be received into the Académie Royale in 1663. He held a number of posts with the Académie, and also acted as curator, restorer and engraver of drawings for the banker Everard Jabach and later for King Louis XIV. Corneille expanded on his series of engravings after Carracci landscapes in Jabach's collection (left unfinished after the latter's bankruptcy in 1671) by drawing a series of landscapes inspired by the Bolognese master's style and compositions.