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Paris, Musée du Louvre - département des arts graphiques
© Musée du Louvre - Marie-Alice Seydoux
Exhibitions
Drawings by Joseph Pennell illustrating A Little Tour in France by Henry James and etchings and lithographs, New York, Frederick Keppel and Co., 1901, n° 46;
Dessins Américains des Collections nationales de 1760 à 1945, Musée de la coopération franco-américain de château de Blérancourt, 15 juin - 30 septembre 1991, n° 17.
PENNELL, Joseph
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1857 - 1860? - ?, 1926
Poitiers, la cathédrale
Poitiers, the cathedral
RF 39912 BIS
1899
Black pencil with white highlights over traces of lead pencil on paper.
H: 0, 214 m.; W: 0, 030 m.
Paris, Musée du Louvre - département des arts graphiques
Inscription
Inscribed in the centger in lead pencil: Cathedral Poitier.
Works on paper
From 1865 to 1900
Historical
Donated by the artist to the Musée du Luxembourg in 1908.
Musée du Jeu de Paume in 1930.
Musée National d'Art Moderne.
Reattributed to the Musée du Louvre, département des arts graphiques in 1977.
Related works
This work is part of a suite of drawings intended to illustrate a series of articles of religious monuments in France in the Century Magazine of New York. The articles are reprinted in E.R. Pennell, French Cathedrals, Monasteries and Abbeys and Sacred Sites of France, New York, London and Leipzig, 1909.
Bibliography
Henry James, A Little Tour in France, London 1900, repr. p.122-H, p. 158;
E. R. Pennell, French Cathedrals, Monasteries and Abbeys and Sacred Sites of France, New York, Londres, Leipzig, 1909;
Véronique Wiesinger, commissaire. Dessins Américains des Collections nationales de 1760 à 1945, Musée de la coopération franco-américaine du château de Blérancourt, Editions RMN, 1991, n° 17 p. 64, repr. p. 108.
