Louis Chéron

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

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Description

Louis Ch�ron
a battle scene: Roman cavalry attacking in an open landscape
Pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white, on blue paper;
bears signature in pen and brown ink, lower left: L. Cheron;
laid down on a decorative, gilded mount

Provenance

Bears indistinct collector's mark on the back of the mount: W [?] S;
John Trevor, Lord Viscount Hampden (1749-1819);
his sale, London, Sotheby's, 27-29 June 1827, lot 46 (with another drawing)

Catalogue Note

Chéron won a Prix de Rome and travelled extensively in Italy, after which he returned to Paris. Around 1693 he came to England where he worked in many noble houses, including Boughton and Chatsworth. He was well-known as a draughtsman and taught for many years at Kneller's Academy, influencing young artists and encouraging an understanding of the French style in England. Strongly influenced by his study of Raphael and Giulio Romano, Chéron worked in a classicising style, but the present drawing shows him capable of freer and more lively handling. Another battle scene, horizontal in format and somewhat less animated, is in the Horvitz Collection.¹

1. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., 'A Self-Proclaimed Student of Raphael and Giulio: Louis Chéron as Draftsman', in Festschrift für Konrad Oberhuber, Milan 2000, p. 350, fig. 10. This is also an excellent, concise introduction to Chéron.