FRENCH SCHOOL of the first part of the 17th century Allegory of architecture or geometry Black pencil, blur, brown wash and white gouache highlights on buff paper. (Cut at the four corners). 18 x 19,5 cm Provenance: - Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, December 9, 1986, no. 116, as a follower of Ambroise Dubois. - Sale Petithory, Maîtres Audap, Solanet et Godeau-Velliet, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 18 June 1993, n° 49, described as attributed to Ambroise Dubois. Bibliography: S. Wintch, Ambroise Dubois, un maître de l'école de Fontainebleau, château de Saint-Rémy-en-L'eau, Éditions Morelle Hayot, 2022, n° DR21, p. 317.