François Le Clerc Du Tremblay, Known as Père Joseph

in or after 1638

Claude Mellan

Artist, French, 1598 - 1688

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper; laid down

  • Credit Line

    Gift of John O'Brien

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 12.9 x 7.6 cm (5 1/16 x 3 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.164.13

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Montaiglon 1856, no. 196, State only

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1856

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

1988

  • Preaud 1988, 154.

Inscriptions

across bottom in plate: Vraye effigie du R. P. Ioseph de Paris predicateur / Capucin, Provincial de Touraine Superieur des missions / estrangeres et de Poitou fondate ur des Religieuses de / Caluaire. A rendu l'esprit entre les mains de ses / Superieurs le 18 . decem bre 1638.; on the crucifix base, lRp//: CM.; by later hand on mount, lRv//in graphite: M.196 N5

Wikidata ID

Q74895306

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