Accession number
PML 140081.27
Creator
Eisen, Charles, 1720-1778, artist.
Published
1754?
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Frame and illustrated border for an engraved headpiece illustration featuring a portrait of Jacob van der Does; the published engraving signed: I.B. Descamps. inv.; A. Pinssio. Sculp.
Drawing for a design for a headpiece illustration for the portrait of Jacob van der Does, created by Charles Eisen or Jean Baptiste Descamps for volume II of Descamps' La vie des peintres flamands, allemands et hollandois (Paris : C.A. Jombert, 1754), page 335.
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).
Drawing for a design for a headpiece illustration for the portrait of Jacob van der Does, created by Charles Eisen or Jean Baptiste Descamps for volume II of Descamps' La vie des peintres flamands, allemands et hollandois (Paris : C.A. Jombert, 1754), page 335.
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
Empty oval cartouche portrait frame, flanked by two canvases showing bucolic scenes with sheep and goats.
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