Charles I de Crequi, Duke of Lesdiguières, 1633

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 24.5 x 18.9 cm (9 5/8 x 7 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of John O'Brien

Catalogue Raisonné

Montaiglon 1856, no. 199, State only

Accession Number

1991.164.11

Artists / Makers

Claude Mellan (artist) French, 1598 - 1688

Image Use

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Inscription

around circumference in plate: CAROLVS. CREQVIVS. LESDIGVERIARVM. DVX. POESSII. PRINCEPS. FRANCIAE. PAR. AC. MARESCALLVS; across bottom in plate: Hic ille est. quem Gallus amat, metuendus ab hoste; / Spes miferus, armorum gloria, pacis honor. / Cl. Mellan G. pinx et S. Romae 1633 Sup. pnt. ; by later hands, cLv//in brown ink: a paris Chez Naudet / M Destemps au louvre 1792; uRv//in brown ink: 28

Bibliography

1856: Montaiglon, Anatole de. Catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre de Claude Mellan d'Abbeville. Abbeville: P.Briex, 1856.

1988: Preaud 1988, 164.