The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 23, 2023

Madame de Maintenon Returning to the Catholic Church [2]

1700s

Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen

(French, 1720–1778)

France, 18th century

Black chalk and brown wash, heightened extensively with white (gouache) and graphite

Support: Light to medium weight antique laid paper, off-white

Sheet: 27.5 x 33.2 cm (10 13/16 x 13 1/16 in.)

Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2010.288

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

Faint signature on smaller drawing, upper center within a cartouche: Eisen; on verso of each mount, inscribed in pencil: Charles D.J. Disen 1720-1778/Mme de Maintenon being received back into Catholic Church/Ex collection Marquis de Lagoy (1764-1819) Aix-en-Provence

Provenance
Marquis de Lagoy (inscribed on verso of each mount: Ex collection Marquis de Lagoy (1764-1819) Aix-en-Provence) (collector's mark [L. 1710], lower right corner of larger drawing, in purple ink); John Hardy, London; Shepherd Gallery, New York City, April 1978
Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2010.288