Jacques le Mercier

Not on View

Medium

etching, engraving, and stippling on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 31.3 x 25.7 cm (12 5/16 x 10 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Mazel 2004, no. 71, State only

Accession Number

1984.25.27

Artists / Makers

Jean Morin (artist) French, c. 1600 - 1650

Philippe de Champaigne (artist after) French, 1602 - 1674

Image Use

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Inscription

around circumference in plate in border: IACQVES.LE.MERCIER.PREMIER.ARCHITECTE.DES.BASTIMEMTS.DV.ROY.ET.DE.LA.ROYNE.REGENTE.;lower left in plate: Ph. Champaigne pinx.; lower right in plate: I Morin scul cum priu Regis; lRv//in graphite: c.38939 / RD.69 / H & P 34 II/2

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 69.

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