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

Charles de La Traverse French
 Formerly attributed to Pierre Jean Boquet French

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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.

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, Charles de La Traverse (French, Paris 1726–1787 Paris), Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over graphite underdrawing. Framing lines in pen and brown ink.

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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, Charles de La Traverse (French, Paris 1726–1787 Paris), Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over graphite underdrawing. Framing lines in pen and brown ink.
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, Charles de La Traverse (French, Paris 1726–1787 Paris), Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over graphite underdrawing. Framing lines in pen and brown ink.

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