Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Requires Photography

Benoît Audran I (Franco–Dutch or German, 1661–1721)
After: Claude Lefebvre (French, 1632–1675)

1709

Medium/Technique Etching and engraving

Dimensions Sheet: 54.3 × 41.7 cm (21 3/8 × 16 7/16 in.)
Platemark: 51.8 × 39.8 cm (20 3/8 × 15 11/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Miss Olive Simes

Accession Number45.675

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Meyer 169, ii/ii; Le Blanc 245

Marks Verso, center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)

ProvenancePDP Register entry: Date acquired, 9/13/1945