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Maximilien de Béthune, 1st Duke of Sully (b. 1560 - d. 1641)
Jacob Matham (Netherlandish, 1571–1631)
After: Elias van den Brossche (Flemish, active about 1594–about 1613)
Published by: Paul de la Houve (French, about 1592–about 1660)
After: Elias van den Brossche (Flemish, active about 1594–about 1613)
Published by: Paul de la Houve (French, about 1592–about 1660)
1614
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 36 × 26.1 cm (14 3/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Washington Irving Jenkins
Accession NumberM26806
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 025; Hollstein (Dutch and Flemish, vol. 11) 370; Léna Widerkehr (New Hollstein) 229.III
Signed
This state not signed by the engraver
Marks
No watermark(?); verso, MFA Jenkins Bequest stamp in brown (Lugt 4831), with accession number in graphite: 26806; MFA stamp in brown (Lugt 282), with accession number in graphite: 26806; in graphite: [not transcribed]
InscriptionsInscribed plate, in lower margin: lower left: Toy qui dans ce tableau, le visage contemple/Du grand Duc de Sully, seache & ne doubte point/Que sa fidelité ne trouue point d'exemple,/& que son e'esprit meit la france au plus saut point; lower right: Apprel tant de beaux faictz et tantde bons sevices/Que tu feis a la france, et dont elle a le fruiet/Te peut elle oublier non obstant les eclipses/& les brouillands du temps, le Soleil touiours luit
Inscribed in plate, below above, lower left: Paul.es de la Houve excudebat. 1614.; lower center: Du Boys pinxit.; lower right: Avec Priuilege du Roy.
Inscribed in plate, below above, lower left: Paul.es de la Houve excudebat. 1614.; lower center: Du Boys pinxit.; lower right: Avec Priuilege du Roy.
ProvenanceBy 1916, Washington Irving Jenkins (b. 1848 - d. 1916; Lugt 4831), Clinton, MA; 1917, bequest of Jenkins to the MFA. (Acquisition Date: August 1, 1917)