Lot n° 163
Estimation :
100 - 120
EUR
MUSEE DU LOUVRE - Xavier WILLEMIN(Nancy 1763... - Lot 163 - Vermot et Associés
MUSEE DU LOUVRE - Xavier WILLEMIN(Nancy 1763 - 1833, engraver and art historian) / Sur le reliquaire ayant servi à renfermer le bras de Charlemagne (au Louvre): 1°) Autograph manuscript signed (at the top), 1 p in-4, describing the "reliquary used to enclose Charlemagne's arm", he describes its various faces - 2°) Original engraving (22.5 x 29.5 cm, small missing at bottom right corner), representing the faces of this reliquary, which he has signed in his own hand / Joint: another autograph manuscript signed (at the top), 1 p in-4, describing "a box used to enclose an oratory, the work of which must predate the eleventh or twelfth century".
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