BIB_ID
79887
Accession number
MA 24.1a-b
Creator
Edelinck, Gérard, 1640-1707, engraver.
Published
[before 1707]
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 print : engraving ; 285 x 216 mm
Notes
Below title: "Meldensis Comes Consistorianus antea serenissimi Delphini Praeceptor et primus serenissimae Ducis Burgundiae Eleemosynarius" and "Aetatis anno 74."
Part of a collection of letters, manuscripts, and prints related to Bossuet and Fénelon; see collection record (MA 24) for more information.
This volume contains two identical copies of this engraving.
Part of a collection of letters, manuscripts, and prints related to Bossuet and Fénelon; see collection record (MA 24) for more information.
This volume contains two identical copies of this engraving.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1907.
Summary
Head-and-shoulders portrait of French bishop and theologian Jacques Bénigne Bossuet; an image of his seal appears below.
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