Bon de Broé, 1588

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 18.7 x 13 cm (7 3/8 x 5 1/8 in.); cut within platemark

Credit Line

Gift of the Estate of Leo Steinberg

Catalogue Raisonné

Robert-Dumesnil, no. 328, State i/iii

Accession Number

2011.139.2

Artists / Makers

Thomas de Leu (artist) French, c. 1560 - c. 1620

Image Use

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Inscription

in image around portrait: SIC OCVLOS PRAES. SIC ORA. BROAE FEREBAS CVRIAE AMOR CLERI LAVS, INOPVMQVE SALVS; lower right in plate: Thomas de Leu fec.; BONUS DE BROE Turnonensis, Sacerdos et Abbas / In senatu Paris. Castissime Sedit Proesedis Ann duo detriginta. / Senator dein Prases prima Inquisitionum classis. Vixit An. 64. / Mens G. D. 20 Fato cessit Kal. Mart. 1588 / Petrus De Montchal Avunculi memo CC; by later hand, verso in brown ink: LE(?); by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: Thomas de Leu / Bon de Broé President de Parlément / 1st state l u v B. N. 251 i/iv

Provenance

Leo Steinberg, New York (1920-2011); Estate of Leo Steinberg, New York; gift to NGA, 2011.

Associated Names

Steinberg, Leo, Estate of

Bibliography

1967: Robert-Dumesnil, A.P.F. Le peintre-graveur francais, ou catalogue raisonne des estampes gravees par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'ecole francaise, ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de M. Bartsch. Reprint (11 vols. in 6). Paris: F. deNobe: no. 328, i/iii