The Gallery of the Hôtel des Gobelins with the Tapestries of LeBrun's "Battles of Alexander"

Sébastien Leclerc (French, 1637–1714)

1696

Medium/Technique Etching and engraving

Dimensions Sheet: 19.6 × 30.9 cm (7 11/16 × 12 3/16 in.)
Platemark: 14.6 × 24.9 cm (5 3/4 × 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line Museum purchase with funds donated by Mrs. G. Marshall Moriarty in memory of Charlotte Vershbow

Accession Number2001.275.4.324

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Jombert 257(1); IFF 458, ii/iv; Le Blanc 422

DescriptionColbert visiting the Gobelins manufactory to view the tapestries with LeBrun's designs of "The Battles of Alexander"

Marks Verso, upper center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)

ProvenanceBernard Quaritch Ltd., London; from whom purchased June 27, 2001 (from an album bound and organized in France about 1770-1775)