French and Italian Schools, 17th and 18th century

All with the Heim Gallery, London, from whom purchased;
French School, 17th Century,  Design for a Pietà:
Jacques Tardieu (L. 1541a);
bears unidentified collector's mark (L.2179a);
Two:
Mathias Polakovits (his mark, not in Lugt)

Including a study of a standing putto in black chalk heightened with white chalk on buff paper, by Augustin Pajou, and a study of a fragment of sculpture with the head of a child in coloured chalk on blue paper, by François Duquesnoy, from the collection of Jonathan Richardson Sen^r (L.2184).
We are most grateful to Rhea Blok of the Fondation Custodia, Paris, for her help with identifying the provenance of these drawings.