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Details
- Date
- 1648
- Media category
- Materials used
- engraving
- Dimensions
- 22.7 x 16.4 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.c., [incised plate] "CM...1648".
- Credit
- Purchased 1988
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 243.1988
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Claude Mellan
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About
Michel de Marolles, abbé of Villeloin (1600-1681) was the first major print collector in Europe. He formed a collection of over 120,000 prints by artists as varied as Mantegna, Dürer and Lucas van Leyden, as well as by his French contemporaries such as Bosse, Callot and Mellan. His collection, contained in 500 leather-bound albums, was purchased by Louis XIV in 1667. It became the nucleus of the present-day collection of the print room of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Le Grand Siècle, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 16 Jun 1997–17 Jul 1997
Old Europe: Prints & drawings from the collection 1500-1800, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 03 Jun 2006–06 Aug 2006
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Peter Raissis, Le Grand Siècle, Sydney, 1997. no catalogue numbers
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