Alphonse du Plessis Richelieu, Cardinal of Lyon

1636

Claude Mellan

Artist, French, 1598 - 1688

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of John O'Brien

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 22.2 x 14.8 cm (8 3/4 x 5 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.164.12

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Montaiglon 1856, no. 228, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1856

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

1988

  • Preaud 1988, 192.

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: ALPHONSVS CARDINALIS / ARCHIEPVS. LVGDVN. / C. Mellan Gall' del. et S. Romae Sup. pm. / 1.6.3.6.; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: Cardinal A lphonse du Plessis Richelieu / Montaiglon 228 II

Wikidata ID

Q74895302

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