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Hortence Mancini Duchesse de Mazarin [print].

BIB_ID
440001
Accession number
MA 727.33
Display Date
Paris : ches Daumont rue St. Martin, [18th century]
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 145 x 101 mm; plate mark: 154 x 110 mm; sheet: 248 x 175 mm
Notes
Title from item.
Within image at left, "Peint par Leris"; and at right, "à Paris ches Daumont rue St. Martin."; within the portrait's oval frame, "Hortence Mancini Duchesse de Mazarin / née à Rome, morte à Chelsey en Angleterre le 2 juillet 1699."
Design evidently copied by Leris after a painting of Hortense Mancini as Cleopatra, by Jakob Ferdinand Voet (Flemish, 1639-ca. 1700).
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, wearing a turban, within an oval frame surmounting a pedastal, looking slightly to the right.
Classification