Nicolas de Largillière, 1715

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 47.5 x 34.6 cm (18 11/16 x 13 5/8 in.)

sheet: 51.5 x 38 cm (20 1/4 x 14 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Firmin-Didot 'Portraits', no. 251

Accession Number

1991.132.4

Artists / Makers

François Chereau I (artist) French, 1680 - 1729

Nicolas de Largillierre (artist after) French, 1656 - 1746

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: N. de Largillierre pinx; lower right in plate: F. Chereau sculp. 1715; below window, across bottom in plate: NICOLAVS DE LARGILLIER(R)E IN REGIA / PICTVRAE ACADEMIA PROFESSOR l'airain. / Tu mihi le pictum, qua polles arte,dedisti / Te libi Chalcographi conformem cuspide reddo / ... L VDOVICVS D'ASSENET Amicus Amico; aBp//: Tu m'as donne tes traits peints de ta main savante, / Ami je te les rends gravez par le Burin, / Que sur la toille ainsi ton image vivante / Soit immortelle sur l'airain.

Exhibition History

1992: Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art of Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 25.

Bibliography

1875: Firmin-Didot, Ambroise. Les graveurs de portraits en France; catalogue raisonne de la collection des portraits de l'ecole francaise. 2 vols. Paris:Firmin-Didot, 1875-1877.

1880: Portalis/Beraldi 1880, 19.