Michel Corneille the Younger

Atlas supporting the celestial globe with Hercules on the right

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Property from the collection of the late Walter L. Strauss

Michel Corneille the Younger

Paris 1642 - 1708

Atlas supporting the celestial globe with Hercules on the right

Pen and brown ink and gray wash, over traces of black chalk, within partial red chalk framing lines;

bears old attribution/signed(?) in brown ink, lower right: M. Corneille

328 by 197 mm; 12⅞ by 7¾ in.

Eugène Rodrigues, Paris (L.897);
Walter L. Strauss, New York (1922-1988),
thence by descent

The vigor in the penwork and the academic approach of this drawing are typical of the draughtsmanship of Michel Corneille II. Corneille came from a family of painters. He was the son of Michel Corneille I ( c. 1601/3-1664) and the brother of Jean-Baptiste Corneille (1649-1695). He made his training in the studios of two leading artists, Charles Le Brun (1619-1690) and Pierre Mignard (1612-1695). The technique of this sheet shows the influence of both artists and must be a design for a frontispiece or an illustration, though presumably one that was never used, as the drawing appears not to have been indented for transfer.