Accession number
PML 140081.3
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 38 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 Bernard van Orley, facing slightly to the left, in an oval frame, with a woodland scene visible in the background, with a man on horseback blowing a horn, viewed from the back, at left.
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