Claude de Marolles, in or before 1656

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series Title

Les Memoires de Michel de Marolles: I, p.341

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 23.6 x 18 cm (9 5/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
page size: 29.2 x 19.1 cm (11 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Beres in memory of Lessing Rosenwald and in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Catalogue Raisonné

Montaiglon 1856, no. 249, State ii/ii

Accession Number

1991.103.1.b

Artists / Makers

Claude Mellan (artist) French, 1598 - 1688

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate:CLAVD. de MAROLLES generofus. Turonefis, E ques auratus, Regis a confiliis, / cataphractprum militum Praefectus, Ferentariorumgs Dux imperterri tus, pro / Patria, pro Rege, pro Religione, in duello clarus, in bello clariffin.in pace / fpectabili s, in fpernedis diuitus eximius, apud fuos inter Mich.Abbatis de Villeloin ac Ludouici ftrenui militis cariffimorum filiorum amplexus / Chr. Cath. occubuit ann. natus LXIX. vj. id. Dec. MDCXXXIII. / CMellan Sc.

Provenance

Archibald Philip, Earl of Rosebery

Associated Names

Berès, Pierre, Monsieur

Exhibition History

1992: Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art of Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 23.

Bibliography

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