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Charles Nicolas Cochin
1715-1790
The Host and the Manna
1782
Red chalk, over black chalk, on paper.
6 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches (160 x 160 mm)
Purchased as the gift of Stephen Geiger.
1991.3
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Watermark: none visible.
Cochin executed this design for the Missal of the Royal Chapel at Versailles, which is now preserved in the Bibliothéque nationale de France, Paris (Department of Manuscripts, M. Lat. 8896-97). The vignette appears as a tailpiece for the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament contained in the Gospels (folio 45, verso). Cochin executed a large number of drawings for the Missal, several of which are now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Inscription:
Signed at lower left, in red chalk, "C. N. Cochin 1782".
Provenance:
Sale, Paris, Guyot de Villeneuve, 28 May 1900, lot 11; Galerie Cailleux, Paris, 1991.
Associated names:
Geiger, Stephen, donor.
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