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Portrait of Antoine Despeisses
Claude Mellan (French, 1598–1688)
about 1624-1636
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 26.3 × 17.7 cm (10 3/8 × 6 15/16 in.)(trimmed on or slightly within the platemark)
Credit Line
Bequest of Mrs. Arthur Croft—The Gardner Brewer Collection
Accession NumberM17795
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
IFF 319, only state; Le Blanc 206; Montaiglon 182
Marks
Verso, upper right, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Croft Bequest (Lugt 469)
ProvenanceThe Gardner Brewer Collection; Mrs. Arthur Croft (Caroline A. Brewer)(died 1898); her bequest to the MFA January 1, 1902