Costume Design for a Demon by de la Traverse in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2018

Title: 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

Artist: Charles de La Traverse (French, Paris 1726–1787 Paris)

Artist: Formerly attributed to Pierre Jean Boquet (French, Paris 1751–1817 Paris)

Date: ca. 1764

Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over graphite underdrawing. Framing lines in pen and brown ink.

Dimensions: 11 7/8 x 9 3/16 in. (30.2 x 23.4 cm)

Classification: Drawings

Credit Line: Gift of Alexander B.V. Johnson and Roberta J.M. Olson, 2000

Accession Number: 2000.637.1

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.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/343322