Attributed to Michel-François DANDRE-BARDON (Aix-en-Provence 1700 - Paris 1783) Study sheet with portrait of man in right profile and three hand studies Sanguine with white chalk on buff paper. (Folds in the lower left corner). In an antique carved and gilded wood frame. 22 x 32 cm Provenance : Anonymous sale, Maître Kohn, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 12, 2016, no. 4, described as attributed to De Troy. Can be related to two other leaves (see: anonymous sale, Maîtres Ader, Picard et Tajan, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 6, 1987, no. 97 and a "study of a man with his arms raised" preparatory for the meal of Esther and Ahasuerus, formerly Galerie de Bayser).