76 6012 Lairesse G de 1641 1711 by/ after?
- With red chalk grid; large closed tear in the upper right corner; central vertical fold; sm. section strengthened along upper edge; sl. frayed; some dustsoiling, mostly near outer edges and sm. scattered inkstains.
= A grisaille painting by Lairesse was sold in March 2021 at Koller with the exact same composition (authenticated by Alain Roy), measuring 88x144 cm. (2 and 1/3 times larger). Perhaps this is the design for that painting and the grid was used as a tool for enlarging. Or this drawing was copied from that painting. There are a few differences, most notably the flowers beneath the tambourine and foot of Herakles, which are not present in the painting, as well as the branch growing between the personification of Virtue and Herakles. On laid paper with watermark of a crowned coat of arms with a French lily, beneath the monogram WR and below that the monogram "cVI".