Pompone de Bellievre

Robert Nanteuil

Artist, French, 1623 - 1678

Charles Le Brun

Artist After, French, 1619 - 1690

Robert Nanteuil after Charles Le Brun

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • 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.)

  • Accession Number

    2006.4.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Petitjean/Wickert 1927, no. 16


Artwork history & notes

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

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.

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q76356327


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