Book illustrations for "La Henriade".

2 drawings, pen and brown ink, with grey wash, 12,5 x 8,6 cm, vellum paper, with attribution in graphite at lower left margin "Moreau".

Under passe-partout.

In 1728, Jean-Michel Moreau provided the illustrations for the London 4to edition of Voltaire's "La Henriade" , in which the author praises the reign of Henry IV as an illustration of religious tolerance. The two drawings replicate the general compositions of the illustrations by Moreau for Canto 7 and 10, but add different settings and characters.
Ref. Bengesco 365.
Prov. Albert Van Loock (coll. stamp, Lugt 3751).