François Joseph HEIM (Belfort, 1787 - Paris, 1865) The Martyrdom of Saint Hippolyte Canvas (stamped on the back) Signed lower left: "Heim 48,8 x 31,1 cm (2 tears restored at the top) Provenance: Me Sadde sale, Dijon, March 18, 2019. This sketch is preparatory to the large altarpiece commissioned from the artist for Notre-Dame de Paris, exhibited at the Salon of 1822 (not located today). Another study less free than ours is known (Jean-Pierre Cuzin, François-Joseph Heim (1787-1865) : peintre d'esquisses, Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire de l'Art français, 1991, p.204, reproduced fig.9).