Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper
Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper
Property from a New York Private Collection
NICOLAS LAGNEAU | PORTRAIT OF A BEARDED MAN
Lot Closed
July 29, 01:30 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a New York Private Collection
NICOLAS LAGNEAU
active circa 1590 - 1630
PORTRAIT OF A BEARDED MAN
Black chalk and stumping over traces of sanguine brûlée
unframed: 331 by 233 mm
framed: 580 by 470 mm
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Armand Sigwalt (1875-1952), Paris (L.175)
Rather than being a portrait drawn from life, the present sheet is a typical character study by Lagneau. Another very comparable head study of a bearded man, traditionally identified as the French statesman Mathieu Molé (1584-1656), was previously in the collection of Jacques Bacri.1 Executed in a characteristic combination of red and black chalk, with the addition of stumping, these types of portraits were typically executed as individual sheets, most probably to be sold as autonomous works of art, or as part of albums. One of these albums belonged to the celebrated French scholar Abbé Michel de Marolles, whose collection now forms the core of the collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. See also the previous lot.
1. Sale, Paris, Sotheby's, "Bacri frères Antiquaires, Paris - Collection Jacques Bacri", 30 March 2017, lot 75