EDME BOUCHARDON

Chaumont-en-Bassigny 1698-1762 Paris

Design for a Medal Celebrating the Marriage of Louise-Elisabeth d’Orléans and Luis, Prince of Asturias, in 1722

Red chalk. Inscribed LUD. ELIZ. AUREL. LUD. AST. PRINCIPI COLLOCATAin red chalk along the circular border and inscribed M.DCC.XXII.in red chalk at the bottom. Inscribed M. Roittiers le filsin brown ink at the upper left of the blue paper mount.

222 x 225 mm. (8 3/4 x 8 7/8 in.) [sheet]

310 x 273 mm. (12 1/4 x 10 3/4 in.) [mount]

PROVENANCE: Probably acquired at auction in Paris in the 1880’s by Austin Gunnison, Cincinnati, Ohio; Private collection, California, by 1975; Thence by descent to a private collection, New York.

LITERATURE: Winslow Ames, ‘Bouchardon and Company’, Master Drawings, Winter 1975, p.394, no.29, pl.32c.