The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of November 28, 2023

Madame de Maintenon Returning to the Catholic Church [1]

1700s

Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen

(French, 1720–1778)

France, 18th century

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

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

Sheet: 27 x 28.5 cm (10 5/8 x 11 1/4 in.)

Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2010.292

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 (Collector's mark, lower right corner of larger drawing in purple ink [L. 1710]); John Hardy, London; Shepherd Gallery, New York City, April 1978
Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2010.292