French School, late 17th Century

A standing draped Man and a Study of the Head of a Man looking down (recto); A Study of a Carthusian Monk, half-length (verso); and A standing draped Man, his arms crossed

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French School, late 17th Century
A standing draped Man and a Study of the Head of a Man looking down (recto); A Study of a Carthusian Monk, half-length (verso); and A standing draped Man, his arms crossed
black and white chalk on brown paper, squared with the stylus (2)
430 x 283 mm. and 434 x 254 mm. (2)
Provenance
Anon. sale, Paris, 1887, part of lot 112.
Nicos Dhikeos (his mark, not in Lugt).

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.

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