Title(s)

Scepter van koning Karel V van Frankrijk
Sceptre royal a l'effigie de Charlemagne (title on object)
Musée National du Louvre Galerie d'Apollon (series title)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1545A-3

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘IXe siècle’

Artist

• Léon Vidal (mentioned on object)
• Léon Vidal (mentioned on object)

Place

Paris

Dating

c. 1876 - c. 1883

Material

• paper

Technique

photochrom

Measurements

height 297 mm × width 168 mm

What

• sceptre, staff (symbol of sovereignty)
• the Holy Roman emperor Charlemagne; possible attributes: crown, model of church, orb, sceptre, sword

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Le trésor artistique de la France volume 1 (RP-F-2001-7-1545A)