Self-Portrait

1635

Claude Mellan

Associated Names
Claude Mellan

Artist, French, 1598 - 1688

The image shows a man facing the viewer with a small, pointed mustache and a goatee. He has wavy, medium-length hair, and is wearing a textured cloak with a visible clasp. The background has a grid-like texture. There is a Latin inscription at the bottom of the image.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper [counterproof]

  • Credit Line

    Gift of John O'Brien

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 22 x 15.4 cm (8 11/16 x 6 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1991.164.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Montaiglon 1856, State i/ii (counterproof)

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1856

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

1988

  • Préaud, Maxime. Inventaire du fonds français: Graveurs du XVIIe siècle, vol. 17 (Claude Mellan). Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1988, no. 172, state i/ii (counterproof).

Inscriptions

reversed across bottom in plate: CLAVDIVS MELLAN NATIONE / GALLVS PICTOR ET INCISOR / Romae superiorum pm. 1.6.3.5.; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 6200

Wikidata ID

Q74895236

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