BIB_ID
287400
Accession number
MA 25.17
Creator
Longueil, Joseph de, 1730-1792, engraver.
Published
[France, 17--]
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 print : engraving ; 162 x 108 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 bishop and theologian Jacques Bénigne Bossuet with his head facing slightly right. The framed portrait sits over a quotation: "Potens exhortari in doctrina sana. Tit.1.9."
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