Sébastien Bourdon (1616-1671)

The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant Baptist

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Sébastien Bourdon (1616-1671)
The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant Baptist

with inscriptions on the mount 'Sebastien Bourdon' and 'Etude d'après nature de Carle Vanloo.- pour les Tableaux des petits...'
red chalk, pen and brown ink, red and brown wash
265 x 211 mm.

Lot Essay

A drawing of the same subject and similar in its free handling of the pen was with Colnaghi, London-New York, May-June, 1994, no. 27, illustrated. The use of red wash is characteristic of Bourdon.
The attribution to Bourdon was kindly confirmed by Heinz Widauer who dated the drawing to the second half of the 1650s.

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