- Title:
- Portrait of Eugénie Droz
- Object name(s):
- Picture
- Collection:
- Senate House Library
- Comments:
- Eugénie Droz (1893-1976) founded the publishing house Librairie Droz in Paris in 1924. She was also a Renaissance scholar; the leading figure in the advancement of scholarship on fifteenth-century poetry and song in the early twentieth century (J. Alden, 2010). Droz researched and lectured at the Warburg Institute and admired its combination of erudition and comprehensibility. A room of the Warburg library is named after her. Signed portrait. Framed.
- Dimension:
- 60 x 50 cm
- Material:
- oil on board
- Normal location:
- Warburg Institute
- Object name:
- Picture
- Object number:
- PO-0213
- Object production person:
- Leleux, A
- Person's association:
- Artist
- Person's birth date:
- 20th cent.
- Person's nationality:
- Swiss or French
- Responsible department/section:
- Warburg
- Text:
- J. Alden, Songs, Scribes and Society (2010), p. 51
- Text reason:
- Online catalogue
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/453fe681-1903-38e4-8bd2-b4823e226534
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/453fe681-1903-38e4-8bd2-b4823e226534, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC
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