Lot Essay
Probably part of a series of heads of Apostles, similar to that of Benedetto Luti. Another drawing by Parrocel from the same series was exhibited in the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Maîtres Franais 1550-1800, Dessins de la Donation Mathias Polakovits, 1989, no. 77, illustrated.