Pompone de Bellievre

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 32.5 x 24.8 cm (12 13/16 x 9 3/4 in.)

sheet: 33.3 x 25.6 cm (13 1/8 x 10 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Petitjean/Wickert 1927, no. 16

Accession Number

2006.4.4

Artists / Makers

Robert Nanteuil (artist) French, 1623 - 1678

Charles Le Brun (artist after) French, 1619 - 1690

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

in image, around frame: POMPONIVS DE BELLIEVRE SE = NATUS GALLIARVM PRINCEPS; lower left in image: Carolus Le Brun pinxit; lower right in image: Robertus Nanteuil sculpebat

Provenance

Pierre Mariette, Paris, 1676 (Lugt 1789). Samuel Josefowitz, Lausanne and Whitchurch-on-Thames. (R. M. Light & Co., Inc., Santa Barbara); purchased 2006 by NGA.

Associated Names

Light, Robert M., Mr.
Mariette, Pierre II
Private Collection c/o Josefowitz

Exhibition History

2008: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 41.

Bibliography

1927: Petitjean, Charles and Ch. Wickert. Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Robert Nanteuil. Paris: Loys Delteil et Maurice Le Garrec, 1927.