Cardinal Mazarin

Jean Morin

Artist, French, c. 1600 - 1650

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, engraving, and stippling on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 29.9 x 24 cm (11 3/4 x 9 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1984.25.26

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mazel 2004, no. 80, State iii/v


Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1945

  • Hornibrook, Murray and Charles Petitjean. Catalogue of the Engraved Portraits by Jean Morin (c.1590-1650). Cambridge: University Press, 1945.

1967

  • Robert-Dumesnil 68.

2004

  • Mazel, Jean. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé de Jean Morin. Paris, 2004.

Inscriptions

around circumference in plate in border: EMINENTISSIMVS.IVLIVS.CARDINALIS.MAZARINIS.&.; lower left in plate: Ph. Champaigne pinx.; lower right in plate: IMorin Scul cum priu Regi; lower right verso: 98 / RD.68 II o f 4 / c.25195 / Sotheby / oct / 69. / HP 33 / Probably / H & P. ii/vii / WMs / 7 and 8 / 4174 (under lined) / This is a very rare print / Colnaghi has never had it in stock / or bought it

Watermarks

(H/P watermarks 7 & 8)

Wikidata ID

Q74046238


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