Attributed to Antoine Coypel Paris 1661 - 1722

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

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Description

Antoine Coypel
study of three souls of the damned
red and black chalk (reddened on the reverse)

Provenance

London, Sotheby's, 9 April 1970, lot 241 (as Laurent Hubert)

Catalogue Note

It has previously been suggested that this drawing records part of the frame of Pierre II Le Gros's sculpted altarpiece, Triumph of the Church over Heresey, in the Roman church of the Gesù, but in fact the relevant figures do not correspond. It does, however, remain possible that this is a copy of part of a similar sculpture in a church in Rome.