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Hortence Mancini Duchesse de Mazarin [print].

BIB_ID
440002
Accession number
MA 727.30
Creator
Fessard, Etienne, 1714-1777, engraver.
Display Date
[place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1740]
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 125 x 77 mm; sheet: 143 x 92 mm
Notes
Caption title.
Within image at left, "Leris pinx"; and at right, "Fessard sculp."; lettered above image at upper left, "T. II. des Mélanges, P. 44."
Design evidently copied by Leris after a painting of Hortense Mancini as Cleopatra, by Jakob Ferdinand Voet (Flemish, 1639-ca. 1700).
Print issued as an illustration in volume II of a 1740 edition of Saint-Evremond's Mélange curieux des meilleures pieces attribuées á Mr. de Saint-Evremond, et de quelques autres ouvrages rares ou nouveaux (place of publication and publisher not identified).
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, facing 3/4 to the right.
Classification