Lot 79: JOSEPH WERNER II

JOSEPH WERNER II 1637 - 1710 STUDY OF HUNTING HORNS signed and dated in pen and black ink 1669 lower right drawn with the point of the brush in black and gray wash on paper. Together with Jean-Baptiste Huët, Study of Turnip Leaves, pen and brown ink with gray wash over traces of pencil on laid paper and Pierre Charles Trémolières, A Grotesque Head , red chalk on paper. 3 works. the first 6 by 8 in.; the second 4 3/4 by 7 3/4 in.; the third 5 3/8 by 7 5/8 in. 15.2 by 20.3 cm; 12.1 by 19.7 cm; 13.7 by 19.5 cm

The second: Yale 2010, no. 64

The first: Dr. Martin Moeller, Kunsthandel, Hamburg
Acquired from the above, 2005
The second: Galerie Chantal Kiener, Paris
Acquired from the above, 2005
The third: Louis Marie Joseph Morel d'Arleux, Abbeville
Thence by descent through the artist's family
W.M. Brady & Co., New York
Acquired from the above, 1993