Lot 51: ATTRIBUTED TO EUSTACHE LE SUEUR

PROPERTY OF THE MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH PARIS 1616 - 1655 HEAD OF A MAN WEARING A LAUREL WREATH Black chalk heightened with white chalk; bears attribution in brown ink: Annibale Caracci 364 by 246 mm

Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, The Benjamin J. Tillar Memorial Trust

This imposing drawing, a life-size study after a model, must have served as a cartoon, but no related painting has been identified. It would seem to date from the early years of the 17th century and is reminiscent of the works of Simon Vouet and the Caravaggist artists working around him in Rome, as well as those of Eustache Le Sueur. The scale of the drawing makes it difficult to compare with the published corpus of drawings by those artists, but the link with Le Sueur seems on balance the closest.