Louis le Bien Aime

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 46.7 x 32.5 cm (18 3/8 x 12 13/16 in.)

sheet: 52.6 x 38.3 cm (20 11/16 x 15 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of John O'Brien

Catalogue Raisonné

Meyer, no. 169

Accession Number

1983.99.4

Artists / Makers

Pierre-François Basan (artist) French, 1723 - 1797

Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne II (artist after) French, 1704 - 1778

Image Use

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Inscription

across bottom in plate: Le Moine et figieme Pinscit / Basans Sculpsit / Louis le Bien Aime / Roy de France et de Navarre; across bottom in plate: (14 lines of poetry)

Bibliography

1872: Meyer, Julius et al. Allegmeines Kunstler-Lexikon, unter Mitwirkung der namhaftesten Fachgelehrten des In- und Auslandes. 3 vols. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1972-1885.

1930: I.F.F. 1700, 1930-70, vol.2, p.144, 252.

1959: Meyer, 1872-85, vol.3, p.93, 169.