Jean BARDIN
1732 - 1809
Sacrifice to Diana
Brush, China ink and brown ink, grey and brown wash, white gouache, black chalk, on a pasted paper
396 × 269 mm
Signed in the lower right side, with a pen and brown ink Bardin
Provenance: Louis-Antoine and Véronique Prat (Lugt 3617)
As many parisians painters in the second part of the XVIII century, Jean Bardin looked for orders of great religious paintings in province whose had to assure him a reputation at the Salon, but he also did mythological et gallant drawings, with an inspiration less neoclassical than his paintings.