BIB_ID
439995
Accession number
MA 727.36
Creator
Beisson, François-Joseph-Etienne, 1759-1820, engraver.
Display Date
[place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [18th century?]
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 201 x 143 mm; sheet: 233 x 173 mm
Notes
Title from item.
Engraving by François-Joseph-Etienne Beisson after a portrait by Robert Nanteuil.
Lettered below image at left, "Nanteuil del.; at lower right, "Et Beisson sculp."
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.
Library's copy trimmed to plate mark.
Engraving by François-Joseph-Etienne Beisson after a portrait by Robert Nanteuil.
Lettered below image at left, "Nanteuil del.; at lower right, "Et Beisson sculp."
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.
Library's copy trimmed to plate mark.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1911.
Summary
Portrait of Cardinal Mazarin, bust-length, turned to the left, in clerical dress, in an oval frame on a low pedastal base.
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