Nicolas Cochin

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

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Description

Nicolas Cochin
Perseus and Andromeda pay homage to the young Louis XIV
Pen and brown ink and brown and gray wash, over traces of red chalk;
bears inscription in pen and ink, recto: Baur and, verso: Padre Bourguignone

Provenance

Private Collection, France

Catalogue Note

Very few drawings by the printmaker Nicolas Cochin are known. One that is reasonably similar in style to the present drawing is a sheet depicting The Presentation of the Keys to a City, recently provisionally attributed to Cochin, in the Musée Fabre, Montpellier.¹ Also comparable is a drawing of The Entry of Louis XIV and Marie-Terèse into Paris, which is, along with two battle scenes and a Temptation of Saint Anthony, in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.²

1. Inv. 864.2.446; Le Trait en majesté. Dessins français du XVII^e siècle au musée Fabre, exh. cat., Montpellier, Musée Fabre, 2011, cat. 17
2. Reserve, B6