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Charles de Batz de Castelmore, known as d'Artagnan and musketeers in a soldiers' camp
Original drawing in pen and black ink, brown wash
by
Hippolyte LECOMTE (1781-1857)
Hippolyte Lecomte was a French history painter born on December 27, 1781 in Puiseaux and died on July 25, 1857 in Paris.
Of noble origin, he was a student of Jean-Baptiste Regnault and Pierre-Antoine Mongin and married the daughter of Carle Vernet. He exhibited regularly at the Salon from 1804 to 1847, and was awarded a 1st class medal in 1808. A landscape painter and history painter, Hippolyte Lecomte was also a popular lithographer. He also designed costumes for the Opera and the Royal Academy of Music.
His son Émile Vernet-Lecomte (1821-1900) became an orientalist painter.
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Signed lower left
Dimensions 24.5 x 33 cm
Old drawing in a good state of conservation
Ref: X98Q6KIAOY