Costume Design for a Demon (Señor Remon), for a performance held during the celebration of the wedding of Marie-Louise de Bourbon with Archduke Léopold de Habsbourg-Lorraine, hosted by the Marquis of Ossuna in Madrid in 1764
Pierre Jean Boquet|Charles de La Traverse
ca. 1764 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over graphite underdrawing. Framing lines in pen and brown ink. · Drawings and Prints
La Traverse was a French artist who studied in Italy and went on to spend much of his career in Naples and Madrid. Little remains of his paintings; his work is best known today through surviving drawings. This wash study is a costume design for the character of a demon named Señor Remon, for a performance held during the celebration of the wedding of Marie-Louise de Bourbon to Archduke Léopold de Habsbourg-Lorraine in Madrid in 1764, hosted by the French ambassador, the Marquis of Osuna.
- Artist
- Pierre Jean Boquet|Charles de La Traverse
- Date
- ca. 1764
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over graphite underdrawing. Framing lines in pen and brown ink.
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of Alexander B.V. Johnson and Roberta J.M. Olson, 2000
