Michel le Tellier

Not on View

Medium

etching, engraving, and stippling on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 30.4 x 24.8 cm (11 15/16 x 9 3/4 in.)

sheet: 35.9 x 27.4 cm (14 1/8 x 10 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Mazel 2004, no. 73, State ii/ii

Accession Number

1984.25.31

Artists / Makers

Jean Morin (artist) French, c. 1600 - 1650

Philippe de Champaigne (artist after) French, 1602 - 1674

Image Use

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Inscription

around circumference in plate in border: Mre.MICHEL.LE.THELLIER.CONer.DV.ROY.EN SES.CONle.SECRET.DES.COMMANDEMs.DESAMAte.; lower left in plate: P Champaigne pinx; lower right in plate: I Morin Scul cum p riu Regis; lCr//in graphite: sur; lRv//in graphite: H & P 41 / RD 76 / i/iii / WM 1 & 1 / sur

Bibliography

1945: Hornibrook, Murray and Charles Petitjean. Catalogue of the Engraved Portraits by Jean Morin (c.1590-1650). Cambridge: University Press, 1945.

1967: Robert-Dumesnil 76.

2004: Mazel, Jean. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé de Jean Morin. Paris, 2004.