Live Auction 5688Old Master & Early British Drawings and Watercolours
Louis Chéron (Paris 1660-1715 London)
Lot 46

Louis Chéron (Paris 1660-1715 London)

The prophet Elijah and the widow of Sarepta (Kings I:17)

Closed3 July 2012

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GBP 6,875

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Louis Chéron (Paris 1660-1715 London)
The prophet Elijah and the widow of Sarepta (Kings I:17)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white
13 7/8 x 19½ in. (35.4 x 49.2 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 3 July 2007, lot 117, where acquired by the present owner.

Specialist note

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 Chéron's posthumous sale; London, 26 February 1726, lot 66 (F. Russell, 'Louis Chéron: a sale catalogue', The Burlington Magazine, CXXX, June 1988, p. 466).