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First Day, Seventh Story, Cane della Scala's Avarice Reproved

1757

Charles Eisen

Artist, French, 1720 - 1778

Medium

graphite
Credit Line

Widener Collection
Dimensions

overall: 10.8 x 5.5 cm (4 1/4 x 2 3/16 in.)
Accession

1942.9.692

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Album of Preliminary Drawings for Boccaccio's "Decamerone" (1757 edition), volume I

Various Artists, Hubert François Gravelot, François Boucher, Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, Charles Eisen

1757

First Day, Tenth Story, Maestro Alberto da Bologna

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II

1757

First Day, Frontispiece

Hubert François Gravelot

1757

Artwork history & notes

Inscriptions

lower left barely legible: C Eisen inv [et f...?]

Wikidata ID

Q64538478

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