Accession number
PML 140081.4
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 50 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 Jan van Scorel, facing 3/4 to the left, in an oval frame, with a Middle Eastern scene visible in the background, with palm trees and minarets, and a man wearing a turban and holding a bow seated at left.
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