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AT-00012520
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Madame de Maintenon Returning to the Catholic Church [1]
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 (Collector's mark, lower right corner of larger drawing in purple ink [L. 1710]); 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) with graphite
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 27 x 28.5 cm (10 5/8 x 11 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Accession no.
- 2010.292
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