Marcellus Laroon The Elder Pen And Ink Drawing Circa.1687

Marcellus Laroon The Elder Pen And Ink Drawing Circa.1687Marcellus Laroon The Elder 1653 1702. Pen and ink drawing. Figure Study. Monogrammed upper right. 5. 7 by 8. 5 cms. Image. 27. 5 by 33. 3 cms. Overall framed. Laroon came to London from The Hague in 1674 and established himself as the studio assistant of Sir Godfrey Kneller. Working independently, he also painted portraits and drew vivid genre subjects whose unsentimental approach to everyday life anticipates that of William Hogarth. This small figure

19th Century French school

Signed and dated 1873

Each side moulded with a lion mask and decorated with stylised foliage in yellow ochre

Cecchetti created the virtuoso role of The Bluebird and the mime role of Carabosse in the premiere of The Sleeping Beauty in 1890

6 x 32 cm Provenance: Ex

Lady Elizabeth Lyttelton of Frankley 1716-1795 after Jean Etienne Liotard 1702-1789

the Wellcome Library and the Yale Center for British Art

titled in coloured pencil lower right

Attributable to Vittorio Bigari 1692-1776

depicting Sir Thomas (or William) Molineux and his family

Cyril and Shirley Fry Collection

11 by 18 cms