Live auction - Lot 58
[French school]
"L'Evangile Eternel".
Ca. 1700
€ 600 / 800
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Lot description
Drawing, pen and black ink, grey wash, 19 x 14,5 cm, laid paper, signed at lower edge "B.us Picart fecit" (large brown stain at lower half, sm. tear at lower right, trimmed to border).
Under passe-partout and gilt frame (not studied outside frame, sm. defect to frame at lower right corner).
Angel hovering over a panoramic world view, while holding scrolls which read "Craignez Dieu et Rendez luy gloire", and L'Evangile Eternel". Perhaps a design for an engraving.