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Attributed to Eustache le Sueur (1617-1655). A Friar in Supplication, red chalk on laid paper laid to the mount, bearing contemporary ink inscription (or signature) 'Le Sueur' lower right, 39.5 x 25 cm, together with Circle of Charles Parrocel (1688-1752). A Company of Soldiers and Women, pen and black ink and brown wash on laid paper, laid on card, 11.1 x 9.6 cm, unframed, plus a 17th-century red chalk study of a youth, by another hand, 21.5 x 14.9 cm (Quantity: 3) Provenance: Eustache le Sueur Rosebery’s, London, Old Masters, British & European Pictures, March 2023, lot 27; Howard-Wicklow Collection, no.1005. Charles Parrocel Private Collection, U.K.; Rosebery’s, London, Old Masters, British & European Pictures, March 2023, lot 32. Anon, Private Collection, U.K.; Sotheby's, London, 1 July 1953, lot 10 (part).