Dartagnan Visiting A Soldiers' Camp - Original Drawing By Hippolyte Lecomte (1781-1857)

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 is a French history painter born 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 obtained a 1st class medal there in 1808. Landscaper and history painter, Hippolyte Lecomte was also an appreciated 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. *** Signed lower left Dimensions 24.5 x 33 cm Old drawing in a good state of conservation - See photo