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Madame de la Valiere, religieuse Carmelite [print].

Accession number
PML 5638.46
Creator
Bonnart, Jean Baptiste, 1654-1726, engraver.
Published
[Paris] : Chez N. Bonnart, rue St. Jacques à l'Aigle, [169-].
Notes
Title from item.
Quatrain below title: Elle donna son coeur autrefois à la terre; mais un eclat divin luy fit ouvrir les yeux, et l'oblige a soudain de declarer la guerre au monde & au Demon, po meriter les cieux.
Signed with initials within image: I.B.F.
Item no. 46 of v. 1 of a set of 2 bound albums containing a total 170 collected engravings (see PML 5638-39).
Print mounted on bound leaf measuring 524 x 352 mm.
Library's copy partially trimmed within plate mark.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 234 x 178 mm; sheet: 273 x 198 mm
Summary
Full-length portrait of Louise de La Vallière in the habit of a Carmelite nun, standing against a plain background, with one hand to her breast.
Classification
Department