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Madame de Maintenon Returning to the Catholic Church [2]
Inscriptions
Faint signature on smaller drawing, upper center within a cartouche: Eisen; on verso of each mount, inscribed in pencil: Charles D.J. Disen 1720-1778/Mme de Maintenon being received back into Catholic Church/Ex collection Marquis de Lagoy (1764-1819) Aix-en-Provence
Provenance
Marquis de Lagoy (inscribed on verso of each mount: Ex collection Marquis de Lagoy (1764-1819) Aix-en-Provence) (collector's mark [L. 1710], lower right corner of larger drawing, in purple ink); John Hardy, London; Shepherd Gallery, New York City, April 1978
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen (French, 1720–1778)
- Date
- 1700s
- Medium
- black chalk and brown wash, heightened extensively with white (gouache) and graphite
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 27.5 x 33.2 cm (10 13/16 x 13 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Accession no.
- 2010.288
More by Charles Eisen in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00012369
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