Accession number
PML 140081.1
Creator
Eisen, Charles, 1720-1778, artist.
Published
1753?
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Drawing by Charles Eisen for a design for a headpiece illustration appearing on page 1 in volume 1 of Jean Baptiste Descamps' La vie des peintres flamands, allemands et hollandois (Paris : C.A. Jombert, 1753).
Forms part of an album of 28 drawings executed in pen and ink, wash, and graphite, by Charles Eisen, to illustrate Jean Baptiste Descamps' La vie des peintres flamands, allemands et hollandois (Paris, 1753-1763).
Forms part of an album of 28 drawings executed in pen and ink, wash, and graphite, by Charles Eisen, to illustrate Jean Baptiste Descamps' La vie des peintres flamands, allemands et hollandois (Paris, 1753-1763).
Description
1 drawing.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Head and shoulders headpiece portrait of Jean van Eyck wearing a fur hat and collar and looking 2/3 to the left; portrait in oval frame, with an alembic and bottles beside it at left and a painting in two halves at right.
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