5059 - 5327: Bourdon, Sebastien (1616-1671).

84/5168 Bourdon, Sebastien (1616-1671). (The Rest on the Flight into Egypt with the infant Baptist and another figure). Drawing, pen and brown ink, 18,4x15,2 cm.

- With a wrongful attribution to Francesco Salviati in pen and ink on recto; laid down on an 18th cent. mount.

= Sold by auction to the present owner in 2001 at Christies, London (sale 6475, lot 96). Study for a lost painting of the same composition (dated to circa 1668 by Jacques Thuillier) (J. Thuillier, Sebastien Bourdon, Paris, 2000, no. 328), copied by various artists and known through a print by François de Poilly. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CII.

€ (3.000-5.000)