Lot 141: NICOLAS LAGNEAU ACTIVE CIRCA 1590 - 1630

black and red chalk and stumping
Inv.nr. N 132

331 by 239 mm.

Bordeaux, Museé des Beaux-Arts, La peinture française en Suède; Hommage à Alexander Roslin et à Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller, 1967, cat. no. 132, reproduced plate LV (as circa 1600);
The Hague 2001, cat. no. 1, reproduced in colour, p. 141, fig. 13

Ansterdam/Dordrecht 1994-5, p. 14, reproduced p. 15, fig. 7

Professor Dr. Einar Perman, Stockholm, from whom purchased 1968

Many studies of heads by this distinctive hand are known, but the artist's biographical details remain obscure. The only near-contemporary mention of his name occurs in Michel de Marolles' Livre de Peintres et Graveurs (Paris, 1672): 'Lanneau n'y faisoit pas bien des choses à fond, mais tout de fantaisie en divers posture.' Marolles (1601-1681) owned about two hundred drawings attributed to Lagneau.