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Portrait of Esprit Fléchier
Gérard Edelinck (French, 1640–1707)
After: Hyacinthe François Rigau y Ros, called Hyacinthe Rigaud (French, 1659–1743)
After: Hyacinthe François Rigau y Ros, called Hyacinthe Rigaud (French, 1659–1743)
about 1698
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 21 x 15.6 cm (8 1/4 x 6 1/8 in.)(trimmed on the platemark)
Credit Line
Gift of Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession NumberM23600
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Esprit Fléchier (1632-1710) was a preacher and author, Bishop of Lavaur (1685-1687) and Nîmes (1687-1710), and a member of the Académie française.
Catalogue Raisonné
Robert-Dumesnil 205, only state; IFF 154; Le Blanc 197
Marks
Verso, lower right-center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceHoratio Greenough Curtis, Boston (1844-1922); his gift to the MFA November 1913