The Holy Family in the Carpenter's Shop

c. 1755

Charles Eisen

Artist, French, 1720 - 1778

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and gray ink with gray wash, watercolor, white gouache, and touches of brown ink on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 35.6 x 24.5 cm (14 x 9 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1994.15.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Paignon Dijonval Collection, Paris; his heir, Comte Morel de Vindé. [Galerie Cailleux, Paris]; purchased 1994 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1810

  • Bénard, M. Cabinet de M. Paignon Dijonval, état détaillé et raisonné des dessins et estampes dont il est composé. Paris, 1810: 151, no. 3564.

1880

  • Goncourt, Edmond, and Jules de Goncourt. L'Art du dix-huitième siècle. 2 vols. Paris, 1880-1884: 166.

2003

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. Review of Jon Whiteley, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, vol. 7, French School, Master Drawings 41, no. 1, Spring, 2003: 64, 65, fig. 1.

Inscriptions

lower left in pen and gray ink: C...Eisen

Wikidata ID

Q64538553

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