Guillaume du Vair

François Langlois

Artist, French, 1589 - 1647

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of John O'Brien

  • Dimensions

    plate: 20.8 x 14.3 cm (8 3/16 x 5 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 27 x 19.4 cm (10 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.208.38

Artwork history & notes

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: F.L.D.Ciartres excudit...Cum Priuilegio; around oval border in plate: GVLIELMVS VAIRIVS VAS LIL II VSV REGVM; across bottom in plate: GVLIELMVS DV VAIR NATVS VII MARTII M.D.LVI. Primo / fuit Senator in Suprema Paris ...; by later hands, across bottom in graphite: F. Langlois of Chartres Sc. (undeciphered) Statesman Duvair 1556-1621; by later hand, lower center vserso in graphite: Fine copy of a picture by Porbus. / -in the Louvre Gallery-

Wikidata ID

Q75120767

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