Lot 117: The Prophet Elijah and the Widow of Sarepta ( I Kings, chapter 17 )

Louis Chéron (Paris 1660-1717 London) The Prophet Elijah and the Widow of Sarepta ( I Kings, chapter 17 ) black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash, heightened with white, on grey-brown paper, watermark encircled fleur-de-lys below crown 14 x 19 3/8 in. (354 x 492 mm.)

Similar in scale, technique and composition to Christ and the Woman of Canaan in the collection of Louis-Antoine Prat (P. Rosenberg, Dessins français de la collection Prat XVIIe-XVIIIe-XIXe siècles, exhib. cat., Paris, Louvre, and elsewhere, 1995, no. 22).
A picture of this subject, now untraced, was listed in Cheron's posthumous sale; London, 26 February 1726, lot 66 (F. Russell, 'Louis Cheron: a sale catalogue', The Burlington Magazine, CXXX (June 1988), p. 466).