CIRCLE OF SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS, SIEGEN, 1577 - 1640, ANTWERP, 17TH CENTURY RED CHALK STUDY DRAWING
Titled 'The Lion and Leopard Hunt', a turbaned horseman being attacked by a lion at centre, while his horse rears, two horsemen at left trying to kill the beast, another lion crouched over a dead hunter lower right, another horseman trying to kill the animal, a speared leopard in lower left with watermark 'HW', framed and glazed.
(sight 20.5cm x 29cm, frame 38cm x 46cm)
N.B. for a 18th Century etching engraving of this seen after Rubens in reverse by Charles Fran?ois Letellier & publish by Jacques Philippe Le Bas See British Museum