Pierre Mignard, 1744

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 51.9 x 38 cm (20 7/16 x 14 15/16 in.)

sheet: 53 x 39.2 cm (20 7/8 x 15 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2007.119.1

Artists / Makers

Georg Friedrich Schmidt (artist) German, 1712 - 1775

Hyacinthe Rigaud (artist after) French, 1659 - 1743

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: Pierre Mignard / Ecuyer, Premier Peintre du Roy, Directeur & Cancelier en / son Academie de Peintre & de Sculpture; lower left in plate: Peint par son Ami, Hyacinthe Rigaud, en 1691; lower right in plate: Gravé à Paris par Georges-Frederic Schmidt, pour sa Réception à l'Academie, en 1744

Provenance

August Spatzier, Berlin (1833 - 1904) (Lugt 2304). (C. G. Boerner, New York); purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Johnson, Jan
Spatzier, August