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French School
18th century
La pitié triomphante de Louis le Grand
Pen and black ink, with gray wash, over black chalk, on paper; bound in silk flowered brocade cover.
Binding: 11 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches (295 x 421 mm); leaves: 11 x 16 1/16 inches (280 x 406 mm)
1980.34
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This volume, formerly known as Acc. No. MS M.298, contains a manuscript text by Pichon of sixty-one pages with sixteen drawings and six historiated initials devoted to the glory of Louis XIV.

Inscription: 

Signed and dated in graphite at upper right corner of title-page, "Robespierre / 1777".

Provenance: 
Marquis de Lagoy, Aix-en-Provence (Lugt 1710); M. de Chapprenet; Marie Antoinette (?); Maximilien Robespierre; purchased in Paris from Lodovic Badin by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1907.
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Lagoy, Jean-Baptiste de Meryan, marquis de, 1764-1829, former owner.
Chapprenet, de, former owner.
Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793, former owner.
Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758-1794, former owner.
Badin, Ludovic, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

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