BIB_ID
287354
Accession number
MA 25.7
Creator
Duflos, Claude, 1665-1727, engraver.
Published
[France, 17--]
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 print : engraving ; 149 x 93 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
Oval head-and-shoulders portrait of French theologian and writer François Fénelon. The portrait is framed with two women in Grecian robes sitting in front of it; one is looking at the portrait and one is holding up a laurel wreath. Death, depicted as an old man with angel's wings and a scythe, is holding up a curtain above the portrait.
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