ID 1390032 
Lot 78  | CHARLES PARROCEL (PARIS 1688-1752)
Estimate value
€ 800 – 1 200 
Étude de cavaliers au tricorne à cheval
graphite, plume et encre brune
21,7 x 27,4 cm (8 ½ x 10 ¾ in.)
Further details
CHARLES PARROCEL, STUDY OF HORSEMEN, GRAPHITE, PEN AND BROWN INK
This study of horsemen, executed loosely, with light, rapid black chalk lines, can be compared with one of the sketches in the two-volume album Deissins de Cavalliers stamped with the French royal coat of arms and kept at the Musée de l'Armée in Paris (inv. 10859; H. Rihal, ‘Comment Charles Parrocel participe à l'éducation du jeune Louis XV’ in Mélanges autour du dessin en l'honneur d'Emmanuelle Brugerolles, Milan, 2022, p. 180, fig. 2). The drawings in this album, which evoke military life in an encampment, were produced to complete the education of the young Louis XV (1710-1774) during the Regency period in the 1720s, when Charles Parrocel was admitted to the Académie in 1721 as a battle painter. The pointing horseman in the centre of the sheet was engraved to illustrate the collection Différentes attitudes de la cavalerie et de l'infanterie. Dessiné et partie gravé par Parrocel Peintre Ordinaire du Roy (Paris, BnF, Cabinet des estampes et de la photographie, in. KE 15 pet-in fol; ibid.).
| Artist: | Charles Parrocel (1688 - 1752) | 
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| Applied technique: | Graphite | 
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic, Stone | 
| Art style: | Old Masters | 
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe | 
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings | 
| Artist: | Charles Parrocel (1688 - 1752) | 
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| Applied technique: | Graphite | 
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic, Stone | 
| Art style: | Old Masters | 
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe | 
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings | 
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