Scene of Military Life: A General Giving Orders

Signature: Pen and brown ink, lower right corner: charle Parrocel.f. 1744

Marking: Stamped in black ink at lower center: [collector's mark of J.D. Lempereur, (Lugt 1740)]
Stamped in black ink at lower left corner: [collector's mark of Henri Delacroix (his mark, an interlaced HD, not in Lugt)]

Jean Denis Lempereur (French)Lempereur sale, Paris, May 24, 1773, possibly part of lot 652: "Deux compositions à la sanguine, pour des dessus de portes de l'appartement de Monsieur le Dauphin à Versailles."; Henri Delacroix (French), Delacroix sale, Paris, Palais Galliera, March 31, 1962, lot 62, pl. XXIII; Vendor: Charles E. Slatkin (American)

Bean and Turcic 1986.229

Alexandre Ananoff "Connaissance des Arts" "Les cents petits maitres qu'il faut connaitre". 149, Paris, July 1964, p. 55, ill.

Pierre Rosenberg, Antoine Schnapper Choix de Dessins Anciens Ex. cat. Bibliotheque Municipale de Rouen, Rouen, 1970, cat. no. under no. 39, p. 84.

Linda Boyer Gillies, Colta Ives French Drawings and Prints of the Eighteenth Century. Ex. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1972, cat. no. 40.

Pierre Rosenberg French Master Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries in North American Collections. Ex. cat., Art Gallery of Ontario, 2 Sept. - 15 Oct., National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 3 Nov. - 17 Dec. 1972, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 12 Jan. - 11 Mar. 1973. Toronto, 1972, cat. no. under no. 105, p. 192.

Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turčić 15th-18th Century French Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1986, cat. no. 40, p. 45, ill.

Perrin Stein, Mary Tavener Holmes Eighteenth-Century French Drawings in New York Collections Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1999, cat. no. 30, pp. 70-72, ill.