CHARLES DE LA FOSSE (PARIS 1636-1716)

A study for La Fosse's Coronation of the Virgin now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen (Fig. 1; C. Gustin-Gomez, Charles de La Fosse 1636-1716. Le maître des Modernes, Dijon, 2006, II, no. P.84). The figure at the top of the sheet is for the winged angel on the right of the oval painting, while the one at the bottom is a study for an angel in the center of the composition. The Rouen canvas is possibly a sketch for a fresco painted, circa 1685, on the ceiling of the chapel of the Château de Choisy. The latter was destroyed during the 19th Century.

Fig. 1. Charles de La Fosse, The Coronation of the Virgin, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen.