Tobias and the Angel

Details

LOUIS CHÉRON (Paris 1660-1725 London)
Tobias and the Angel
black chalk, pen and black ink, grey and brown wash, heightened with white, on grey (formerly blue) paper, pen and black ink framing lines, partially incised
45.8 x 58.4 cm (18 x 23 in.)

Provenance

The artist, probably bequeathed by him with the rest of his studio to Isaac Grassineau; probably in the sale of the contents of the Chéron studio, Covent Garden, London, 1726.
Private collection, England.
Anonymous sale; Phillips, London, 13 December 2000, lot 1 (as circle of Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld).
with Emmanuel Moatti, Paris and New York (Master Drawings 1600-1900, 2001, no. 6, ill.).
Private collection, U.S.A.

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Lot Essay

While the present sheet cannot be related to any surviving painting by the artist, three paintings depicting Tobias and the Angel are recorded in one of the sales of Chéron’s estate in 1726 (Francis Russell, ‘Louis Chéron, a sale catalogue’, The Burlington Magazine, CXXX, June 1988, pp. 465-466).

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