ADAM FRANS VAN DER MEULEN (Brussels, 1632-Paris,... Lot 5

ADAM FRANS VAN DER MEULEN (Brussels, 1632-Paris, 1690) STUDY FOR THE SIEGE OF DOUAI, 1667 Sanguine Study for "Le siège de Douai", 1667, sanguine 11 x 14.70 CM - 4.3 x 5.8 IN. Provenance J. Du Pan (1785-1838), Geneva, (L. 1440). Alfred Beurdeley (1847-1919), Paris, (L. 421); his sale Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 8-10, 1920, lot 234. Possibly M. F. Van der Zande; his Hôtel Drouot sale, Paris, April 30, 1855, lot 3,016 'Épisode d'une bataille. Morceau très spirituellement exécuté' (according to Beurdeley). Possibly Jules Michelin; his Hôtel Drouot sale, Paris, April 21-23, 1898, lot 308. This sanguine depicts one of the episodes in Louis XIV's Flanders campaign from May 1667. The artist shows the king emerging from the trench he has just inspected, and the Duc de Noailles, hat down, presenting his company. The lost painting is known thanks to the tapestry at the Manufacture des Gobelins, from l'Histoire du Roy. Versailles also has a study in black stone for the tapestry, done four-handed with Charles Le Brun (Château de Versailles, inv. MV 7876).