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Funeral for Marie-Thérèse of Spain, Dauphine of France, in the Church of Nôtre Dame, Paris, on November 24, 1746
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As an official draftsman to the king, Charles-Nicolas Cochin was responsible for documenting royal events, festivities, and ceremonies. When the Spanish princess Marie-Thérèse, wife of Louis XV’s eldest son, died in childbirth, she was given two lavish funerals: one at the Church of Saint Denis, and another, represented in this drawing, at Notre Dame in Paris. Cochin’s drawing shows how the interior of the gothic cathedral was theatrically redecorated in the current rococo style. Beneath the majestic canopy in the center of the nave, an ornate arched structure, a baldequin, contains the princess’s coffin.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineFuneral for Marie-Thérèse of Spain, Dauphine of France, in the Church of Nôtre Dame, Paris, on November 24, 1746, c. 1746. Charles-Nicolas Cochin (French, 1715–1790). Pen and black ink and gray wash heightened with white gouache on cream laid paper, incised (with graphite) for transfer; sheet: 45 x 30.9 cm (17 11/16 x 12 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 2000.2
