Accession number
PML 140081.19
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 Joseph van Craesbeke, the published engraving signed: I.B. Descamps. inv.; A. Pinssio. Sculp.
Drawing for a design for a headpiece illustration for the portrait of Joseph van Craesbeke, 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 140.
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 Joseph van Craesbeke, 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 140.
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, one at right featuring a portrait of a man with an eyepatch, and the other at left showing two men engaged in combat.
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