BIB_ID
439999
Accession number
MA 727.29
Creator
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, engraver.
Display Date
[Amsterdam] : [Covens & Mortier], [1726]
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 print : engraving with stipple ; image: 125 x 76 mm; plate mark: 132 x 83 mm; sheet: 139 x 88 mm
Notes
Caption title.
Lettered below image at lower right, "B. Picart sculp direx, 1724"; at upper right, "Mélange T. II. Pag. 1."
Print issued as an illustration in volume II of the 1726 edition of Saint-Evremond's Mélange curieux des meilleures pieces attribuées á Mr. de Saint-Evremond, et de quelques autres ouvrages rares ou nouveaux (Amsterdam : Chez Covens & Mortier, 1726).
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.
Lettered below image at lower right, "B. Picart sculp direx, 1724"; at upper right, "Mélange T. II. Pag. 1."
Print issued as an illustration in volume II of the 1726 edition of Saint-Evremond's Mélange curieux des meilleures pieces attribuées á Mr. de Saint-Evremond, et de quelques autres ouvrages rares ou nouveaux (Amsterdam : Chez Covens & Mortier, 1726).
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
Head-and-shoulders portrait of Hortense Mancini, Duchess of Mazarin, within an oval laurel leaf frame, facing 3/4 to the right.
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