Allegory of Intellect, Memory, and Will

1625

Claude Mellan

Artist, French, 1598 - 1688

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (cut within platemark): 54.3 x 37 cm (21 3/8 x 14 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2003.8.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Montaiglon 1856, no. 372


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

P. Mariette, 1679 (Lugt 1788). Gust. Schulz (not in Lugt). (Lutz Riester, Freiburg); purchased 2002 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2009

  • The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480 - 1650, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; Mary adn Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2009 - 2010, cat. by Emily J. Peters.

Bibliography

1856

  • Montaiglon, Anatole de. Catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre de Claude Mellan d'Abbeville. Abbeville: P.Briex, 1856: no. 372

1939

  • IFF (1600)

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: Simon Vouet / Parisien pinxit / Cl. Mellan Gallus sculp. Romae 1625; lower center in plate: Intellectus et Memoria...Nescia consilij pectore facta bicors

Watermarks

bunch of grapes

Wikidata ID

Q76337532


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