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English: Drawing, Sketches for Scenes Four and Five of Cartoon for Cotton Printing: L'Histoire de Henri IV, ca. 1820   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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English: Drawing, Sketches for Scenes Four and Five of Cartoon for Cotton Printing: L'Histoire de Henri IV, ca. 1820
Description
English: Island scene from Voltaire's epic. Henri IV taking leave of his mistress, Gavrielle d'Estrées, before the Temple of Love, returns with his friend Duplessis-Mornay, to the army.
Date circa 1820
date QS:P571,+1820-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium graphite on paper
Dimensions 28.1 x 86.1 cm (11 1/16 x 33 7/8 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
Current location
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1898-21-22-b
Credit line Gift of Bridget Mahon
Notes
  • Type: Drawing
  • Inscribed: Inscribed in graphite, left margin: Le Roi mit desu les main la gloire de la france / la, dit-il l'un superbe abaisser l'insolence. / chant 10 [...]

Inscribed in pencil in the artist's hand: "groupe coin a sauche" (middle left center), and "groupe/coin a droite/ pour reperé/ ager la groupe/ a gauche du haut" (extreme right center), and quotations from Volataire's text (bottom left and venter).

  • Period: Neoclassical
  • Country: France
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