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PENNELL, Joseph

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1857 - 1860? - ?, 1926

Paris, église Saint-Etienne-Du-Mont: le choeur
Paris, church of Saint-Etienne-Du-Mont: the choir

RF 39957

1893

Pen and black ink over traces of lead pencil on paper. Torn.

H: 0, 655 m.; W: 0, 494 m.

Paris, Musée du Louvre - département des arts graphiques

Inscription

Inscribed: Jo Pennell Paris, St-Etienne-Du-Mont Paris, 4 1/2.

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

E. R. Pennell, French Cathedrals, Monasteries and Abbeys and Sacred Sites of France, New York, Londres, Leipzig, 1909, repr. p. 207;

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, p. 108.