Esprit Antoine GIBELIN (1739-1813) "Sorrow Rides in the Rump and Gallops with it". Watercolour and red chalk, signed below, titled on mount H. 18.5 cm - L. 25.5 cm HVS "A madman, full of errors, whom trouble accompanies, And sick in the city as well as in the country, In vain rides a horse to ease his boredom; Sorrow rides on his rump, and gallops with him." "Epître V", Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636-1711) Étienne Beisson (1759-1820) engraved a composition of the same title after Gibelin in 1788.