Etude préparatoire pour le tableau "Passage du Rhin à Tolhuis par les armées du roi en 1699", dessus-de-porte commandé par la Surintendance des Bâtiments du Roi, pour l'antichambre de l'appartement du roi au château de Marly. Le dessin révèle les parties gauche et droite de la composition, le tableau ayant été coupé au 19e siècle

Location:

musée du Louvre

About the author(s)

Author:

Joseph Parrocel

Born:

3rd Oct, 1646

Dead:

1st Mar, 1704

Country:

France

See more about this author on Wikipedia:

Joseph Parrocel (3 October 1646 – 1 March 1704) was a French Baroque painter, best known for his paintings and drawings of battle scenes. He was born in Brignoles, into an artistic family that produced fourteen painters over six generations. His grandfather Georges Parrocel (1540- ca. 1614) (no surviving works) and his father Barthélemy Parrocel (1595–1660) were both painters. One badly restored painting of Bathélemy survives in the church of Saint-Sauveur in Brignoles, France. His brothers… Read more...