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Certificate of Payment

Carle van Loo (French, 1705–1765)
Signed by: Gabriel-François Doyen (French, 1726–1806)
Signed by: Edme Dumont (French, 1719(?)–1775)
Signed by: Charles François Hutin (French, worked in Germany, 1715–1776)
Signed by: Philibert-Benôit de La Rue (French, 1718–1780)
Signed by: Charles François de La Traverse (French, about 1726–about 1780)
Signed by: Augustin Pajou (French, 1730–1809)
Possibly by: John Corner (English, 1788–1825)
After: Pierre Le Sueur I (French, 1636–1716)
1749

Medium/Technique Pen and ink on paper
Dimensions Sheet (unfolded): 29.8 x 40.8 cm (11 3/4 x 16 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession Number65.2632
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsDrawings

DescriptionDocument signed by Carle Vanloo, who assumed directorship of the L'Ecole Royale des Elèves Protégés on March 31, 1749, recording his tri-monthly payment on April 12 to the school's first six students. (Matted together with an engraved portrait of Vanloo by John Corner, after a painting by Pierre Le Sueur.)
ProvenanceForsyth Wickes (b. 1876 – d. 1964), New York, Paris, Rhode Island; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)