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Portrait of Pompone II de Bellièvre

Robert Nanteuil (French, 1623–1678)
After: Charles Le Brun (French, 1619–1690)
French
1657

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 35.6 × 26.8 cm (14 × 10 9/16 in.)
Platemark: 32.8 × 25 cm (12 15/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of Charles Sumner
Accession NumberM4
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Petitjean and Wickert 016, ii/iv; Robert-Dumesnil 37, ii/ii; Le Blanc 36, ii/ii
Marks Verso of backing sheet, center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 1868)
InscriptionsIn the surround: POMPONUS DE BELLIEVRE SE = NATUS GALLIARUM PRINCEPS
In the plate, lower left: Carolus le Brun pinxit.
In the plate, lower right: Robertus Nanteuil Sculpebat.
ProvenanceBy 1874, Charles Sumner (b. 1811 - d. 1874), Boston; 1874, bequest of Charles Sumner to the MFA. (Acquisition Date: April 27, 1874)