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Frontispiece-Title to Cardinal Richelieu, "Traité de la perfection du chrétein . . ." (Cardinal Richelieu Presenting a Book to the Virgin and Child)
Claude Mellan (French, 1598–1688)
about 1642-1645
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 21.4 × 16 cm (8 7/16 × 6 5/16 in.)(with thread margins all around)
Credit Line
Bequest of Mrs. Arthur Croft—The Gardner Brewer Collection
Accession NumberM17878
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
IFF 346, ii/vi; not in Le Blanc; Montaiglon 311
Marks
Verso, bottom 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