A seated man in a hat; and The same man by a chair holding a fan and a handkerchief

These drawings were executed by Denon in 1794-5 during the French revolutionary tribunals. It depicts the same figure at a few minutes interval. Denon drew a number of depictions of the defendants, being judged or taken to their execution, all of which are laid down on the same type of mount as the present sheets. A group of twenty drawings on seven mounts was sold in these Rooms, 5 December 1961, lots 68-71 and 73-4. Further drawings on the same theme were included in the Denon exhibition in the Louvre in 1999, nos. 57-60. U. van de Sandt suggested that the drawings were done by Denon from the life and that the mounts are Denon's own.