Advanced Search
Requires Photography
Frontispiece-Title to the "Code Louis XIV"
Claude Mellan (French, 1598–1688)
1667
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 20.5 × 13.7 cm (8 1/16 × 5 3/8 in.)(trimmed within the platemark)
Credit Line
Bequest of Mrs. Arthur Croft—The Gardner Brewer Collection
Accession NumberM17892
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
IFF 377, iii/iii; not in Le Blanc; Montaiglon 330
Marks
Verso, lower center, 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