Lot Essay
The present drawings were part of an album of 45 drawings on the Life of Saint Bruno sold in Paris in 1887. Fourteen of these are now in the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute Galleries, G. Kennedy and A. Thackray, French Drawings XVI-XIX Centuries, exhib. cat., 4 July-6 October 1991, London, nos. 22-3. Other sheets are at the Morgan Library, the Louvre and the Albertina.
The series has previously been connected to Le Sueur but Alain Mérot proposed that they relate to the Saint Bruno cycle executed by Claude II Audran, Antoine Bouzonnet-Stella and Louis de Licherie for the Chartreuse of Bourg-Fontaine in the early 1680s, A. Mérot, Eustache Le Sueur 1616-1655, Paris, 1987, pp. 35-6 and 195.
The series has previously been connected to Le Sueur but Alain Mérot proposed that they relate to the Saint Bruno cycle executed by Claude II Audran, Antoine Bouzonnet-Stella and Louis de Licherie for the Chartreuse of Bourg-Fontaine in the early 1680s, A. Mérot, Eustache Le Sueur 1616-1655, Paris, 1987, pp. 35-6 and 195.