BIB_ID
439993
Accession number
MA 727.37
Creator
Jode, Pieter de, 1606-approximately 1674, engraver.
Display Date
[Antwerp] : [Pieter de Jode], [1651?]
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 166 x 124 mm; plate mark: 177 x 129 mm; sheet: 257 x 185 mm
Notes
Caption title.
One of a published series of of 177 portraits, published circa 1651 in Antwerp by Pieter de Jode II under the series title "Theatrum Pontificum, Imperatorum, Regum, Ducum, Principum, etc.", most of them engraved by the same (Hollstein 205-384). Other portraits are engraved by other printmakers, some after Anthony van Dyck (New Hollstein 224-249), Peter Paul Rubens, Titian and others. The series contains portraits of important foreign people, including popes, emperors, royals, archdukes, military commandors, cardinals, admirals, archbishops; from Italy, France, Germany, the Northern Netherlands, Poland, Africa, etc. Cf. Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue.
Lettered below image at right, "P. de Iode exc."
Part of a collection of letters from the Duchesse de Mazarin to the French abbé, physicist and inventor Jean de Hautefeuille. Letters have been cataloged individually; see related records for more information.
One of a published series of of 177 portraits, published circa 1651 in Antwerp by Pieter de Jode II under the series title "Theatrum Pontificum, Imperatorum, Regum, Ducum, Principum, etc.", most of them engraved by the same (Hollstein 205-384). Other portraits are engraved by other printmakers, some after Anthony van Dyck (New Hollstein 224-249), Peter Paul Rubens, Titian and others. The series contains portraits of important foreign people, including popes, emperors, royals, archdukes, military commandors, cardinals, admirals, archbishops; from Italy, France, Germany, the Northern Netherlands, Poland, Africa, etc. Cf. Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue.
Lettered below image at right, "P. de Iode exc."
Part of a collection of letters from the Duchesse de Mazarin to the French abbé, physicist and inventor Jean de Hautefeuille. Letters have been cataloged individually; see related records for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1911.
Summary
Portrait of Cardinal Mazarin, half-length, seated in a chair and holding a folded document in one hand, turned slightly to the left, in clerical dress with a calot.
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