Creative Commons License
Pigault-Lebrun (1753-1835)
(18th and 19th Centuries )
Charles-Antoine-Guillaume Pigault de l'Espinoy (known as Pigault-Lebrun), French novelist, was born in Calais in 1753. He had a stormy youth, but finding his true vocation, he wrote more than twenty plays and a number of novels, the most celebrated of which is "L'Enfant du carnaval." He died in La Celle-Saint-Cloud in 1835.
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
France, Paris (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Diam: 5 3/16 in. (13.2 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
54.846