Vue Proche de Pepinstere dans la Marquisade de Franchemont (Belgium)
Franco-Flemish School
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
circa 1800
Materials
Watercolour on vellum in a giltwood and glass frame
Measurements
140 mm (Diameter)
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Arlington Court, Devon
NT 985778.2
Summary
Grey wash on paper, Vue Proche de Pepinstere dans la Marquisade de Franchemont (Belgium), Franco-Flemish Schoo. c.1800. One of a pair of circular drawings in giltwood frames of landscapes, French c.1800. Title 'Franchimont'. Pepinstère, or Pepinster, named after the Frankish Pepin of Heristal (d.714), is in present-day Belgium, and is near Franchimont, one of the strongholds of William de la Marck (1446–1485), the ‘Wild Boar of the Ardennes’, who killed the Bishop of Liège (see Sir Walter Scott’s Quentin Durward), and the chief place of the old marquessate of Franchimont.
Makers and roles
Franco-Flemish School, artist