BIB_ID
287339
Accession number
MA 25.1
Creator
Savart, Pierre, b. 1737, engraver.
Published
Paris : Chez l'Auteur Rue et près le petit St. Antoine au coin de la Rue Percée, 1771.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 print : engraving ; 193 x 141 mm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters, manuscripts, and prints related to Fénelon and Bossuet; see collection record (MA 25) for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.
Summary
Head-and-shoulders oval portrait of French theologian and writer François Fénelon. The portrait is in a frame with a banner above it and decorative objects below it including an open book, a lyre and laurel wreath, a bishop's mitre and crosier, and a picture of a battle scene.
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