Lot Essay
These two drawings come from an album of copies formerly in a Swiss private collection. Other sheets are at Philadelphia, Cleveland and at the U.C.L.A., Los Angeles. A drawing of that series (P. Rosenberg, French Master Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries in North American Collections, exhib. cat., Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1972, no. 119, pl. 43) bears an old attribution and is similar to a head in Puget's famous relief Alexander and Diogenes.