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Source Description
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.
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31691
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Pigault-Lebrun (1753-1835)
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31691
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title
Pigault-Lebrun (1753-1835)
description
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.
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1831
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CC0
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en
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Metal
medallions (medals)
portraits
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1
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1
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import
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Diam: 5 3/16 in. (13.2 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Signature] Bottom center: DAVID; [Date] Bottom center: 1831; [Inscription] On left: PIGAULT LEBRUN; [Inscription] On obverse: FUMIÈRE / ET CIE SUCRS - THIEBAUT FRES / PARIS
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bronze
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4989
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EAN
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none
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photo
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