Charles-Nicolas Cochin (Paris 1715-1790)

King Louis XIV and the Dauphin crowned by Glory and Immortality, and acclaimed from below by the Sciences, the Arts and the French People led by Minerva

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Charles-Nicolas Cochin (Paris 1715-1790)
King Louis XIV and the Dauphin crowned by Glory and Immortality, and acclaimed from below by the Sciences, the Arts and the French People led by Minerva
black chalk, pen and black ink, grey wash, black ink framing lines
7 3/8 x 5 7/8 in. (18.8 x 14.6 cm.)

Provenance

C.-A. Joubert, 1748; his sale, Paris, 15 April 1776, one of 286 drawings.
Acquired from Scheffer Galleries.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 14 April 1992, lot 158.

Literature

C.-A. Jombert, Catalogue de l'oeuvre de C.-N. Cochin Fils, Paris, 1770, p. 73, no. 193.
C. Michel, Charles-Nicolas Cochin et le livre illustré au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1987, no. 84a.

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Lot Essay

Intended to serve as a frontispiece to the third edition of Président Hénault's sumptuous Nouvel Arbrégé Chronologique de l'Histoire de France contenant les évênements de notre histoire depuis Clovis jusqu'à la mort de Louis XIV (1749), this composition was never actually engraved. Charles-Antoine Jombert, to whose sale it can be traced, was an early patron of Cochin and owned a large number of the artist's drawings, which he described at length in his 1770 catalogue (op. cit.).

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