Lot 100: HYACINTHE COLLIN DE VERMONT VERSAILLE 1693 - 1761 PARIS

THE BETROTHAL OF ALEXANDER AND ROXANA

measurements note
354 by 487mm

black chalk heightened with white on buff paper

PROVENANCE

Glomy (L.1119);
Purchased from Alister Mathews, 1957

NOTE

Collin de Vermont was a pupil of Jouvenet and of Rigaud. He was in Rome from 1716 until 1720, and then returned to Paris where he was admitted to the Académie Royale in 1725. He continued to receive important commissions, including the altarpiece for the chapel of the Château de Versailles. He made a series of 33 paintings of stories from the life of Cyrus which were in his studio at his death and not dispersed until 1925. The present drawing seems to be the study for one of those paintings.