MARCUS SEXTUS RETURNING AND FINDING HIS WIFE DEAD AND HIS DAUGHTER CRYING

細節

Pierre-Michel Bourdon (French, 1778-1841)
MARCUS SEXTUS RETURNING AND FINDING HIS WIFE DEAD AND HIS DAUGHTER CRYING
Black, red, blue and orange chalk heightened with white on paper
5 x 6¼ in. (13 x 16 cm.)

來源

Vve. Filhol & Bourdon; Paris, 26 January 1829, according to an inscription 'Bourdon (d'après Guèrin) dessin original de la Gravure ayant obtenu un des prix dècennaux. (provenant de la Vente Filhol)' on a label attached to the backing.
Marquis de Crillon, his inscription '+ representant un tableau de guerin dessinè par Bourdon, je legue le dessin cy dessous + á monsieur adolphe de thermes en souvenir de notre longue et commune amitiè. Paris Ce mars 1864 Mis de Crillon/' on a label attached to the backing with seals with a coat-of-arm with a Marquis' Crest inscribed with the motto 'Fait ton Devoir'.
Adolphe de Thermes, 1864.
Comte de Gontant to his nephew,
Comte Antoine de Gontant Biron, in 1879, his inscription 'Ce dessin m'a été laisse par mon oncle le comte de Gontrant en 1879 Cte Ant. de Gontrant Biron' on the second label.

刻印

For J. Lavallée and A.-C. Caraffe, Galerie du Musée Napolèon, Paris, 1804-1815.

注意事項

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拍品專文

The drawing reproduces a painting exhibited by Guèrin in the 1799 Salon, acquired by the state and now in the Louvre. The volumes of the Galerie du Musée Napoleon illustrate some 720 pictures from the newly created Musée Napoleon. The plates were engraved by Dufraine, Malapeau, Duplessi-Berteau, Damprun and others. On the frontispiece is a portrait of the publisher Filhol drawn by Bourdon and engraved by Pauquet.