Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac

probably 1637

Claude Mellan

Artist, French, 1598 - 1688

Claude Mellan

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of John O'Brien

  • Dimensions

    plate: 18.4 x 11.7 cm (7 1/4 x 4 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 23.5 x 15.6 cm (9 1/4 x 6 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1991.164.18

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Montaiglon 1856, no. 165, State ii/iii

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, 140.

Inscriptions

across top in plate: ILVDOVICVS BALZACIVS ANN. AET. 40; across bottom in plate: Facunda nullus ora Gallicae Pythus / Potis est referre pictor, et color nullus, / Imago vt extet ver a, quem vides, ipse / Sibi sit Apelles vnus, vnicae Suadae.; lLp//: CM; lRp//: N.BORB.: BY LATER HAND , lLv//in graphite: 65530

Wikidata ID

Q74895343

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