Attributed to Michel Corneille the Younger (French 1642-1708)

Attributed to Michel Corneille the Younger (French 1642-1708)

Landscape with a church on a hill, probably Saint Paul Outside the Walls, Rome (recto); Landscape with steps leading to an Italian town and a study of a cow (verso)

Inscribed Derriere de St Paul (upper centre, recto)

Pen and brown ink

24.4 x 40.7cm; 9½ x 16in

Provenance:

Marquis Philippe de Chennevières (1820-1899) (L.2073);

Teodor de Wyzewa (1862-1917) (L.2471)

Literature:

Louis-Antoine Prat, La collection Chennevières. Quatre Siècles de Dessins Français (Musée du Louvre, 2007), p.439, no.858