Urban VIII, 1624

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 26.5 x 17.3 cm (10 7/16 x 6 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of John O'Brien

Catalogue Raisonné

Montaiglon 1856, no. 237, State ii/ii

Accession Number

1991.164.7

Artists / Makers

Claude Mellan (artist) French, 1598 - 1688

Simon Vouet (artist after) French, 1590 - 1649

Image Use

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Inscription

across bottom in plate: VRBANVS VIII BARBERINVS / PONTIFEX MAXIMVS / Anno aetatis Suce. 56. / SV. pi. Cl. Mellan Gall'. Sculp. Romae Superiorum permissu. 1624.

Bibliography

1856: Montaiglon, Anatole de. Catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre de Claude Mellan d'Abbeville. Abbeville: P.Briex, 1856.

1988: Preaud 1988, 201.