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Frontispiece to De l'Instruction de Monseigneur le Dauphin
Claude Mellan (French, 1598–1688)
1640
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 20.8 × 14.3 cm (8 3/16 × 5 5/8 in.)(trimmed on or slightly within the platemark)
Credit Line
Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession NumberB2659
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
IFF 297, iii/iii; not in Le Blanc; Montaiglon 299
Marks
Verso, lower right, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Babcock Bequest (Lugt 207); verso, lower right, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 1868)
ProvenanceWilliam Perkins Babcock, Boston, Paris (1826-1899); his bequest to the MFA June 12, 1900