Jule Mazarin Cardinal [print].

Record ID: 
439997
Accession number: 
MA 727.35
Created: 
[place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [17th century?]
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description: 
1 print : engraving ; image: 266 x 203 mm; sheet: 276 x 211 mm
Notes: 

Caption title.
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 within plate mark.

Summary: 

Portrait of Cardinal Mazarin, bust-length, turned to the left, in clerical dress; in a decorated circular frame within anarchitectural border decorated with palm and oak leaves, surmounted by a coat of arms flanked by helmets.

Provenance: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1911.