Lot 94: Hyacinthe Collin de Vermont (Versailles 1693-1761 Paris)

Ruggiero arriving on Alcina's island
black chalk, grey wash heightened with white (partially oxidized)
13 3/8 x 19 in. (339 x 482 mm.)

The mounter's mark Glomy (L. 1120).

Related to a tapestry cartoon commissioned by King Louis XV for the Manufacture des Gobelins, and currently at the Museum of Grenoble (G. Chomer, Peintures francaises avant 1815: La collection du Musée de Grenoble, Paris, 2000, no. 22). This painting was exhibited at the 1740 Salon, the catalogue for which indicates that the tapestry was never realised and that the cartoon remained at the Gobelins until 1794. In 1740, Collin de Vermont was appointed professeur at the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture.