EDGARD MAXENCE (1871-1954) SAINTE ANNE OU LA DUCHESSE ANNE DE BRETAGNE, 1918 Watercolour and pencil on paper Signed and dated upper left Watercolour and pencil on paper; signed and dated upper left 21 X 14,5 CM - 8 1/4 X 5 3/4 IN. RELATED WORK Jérôme Doucet, Verrières, drawings by Edgard Maxence, Éditon Aux despens de l'auteur, Paris: 1929, (one of the illustrations reproduced opposite) "The christening ceremony was a grand affair, attended by all the inhabitants of Belle-Isle-en-Mer and many local residents who had come by boat. the Duchess of Brittany herself, a noble lady of marvellous beauty, had insisted on coming as godmother of the nave. With her own hands, so white, so slender she had cut out a flag to hoist it to the mainmast; it was of silk, in the shape silk, in the shape of a flame, blue silk, with silver embroidery of an ermine ermine as it is in the arms of the Duchy." Jérôme Doucet, Verrières, drawings by Edgard Maxence, Éditon Aux despens de l'auteur, Paris: 1929, pp. 23-24