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Portrait of Antoine Le Pautre (with the frame)

Robert Nanteuil (French, 1623–1678)
and: Jean Le Pautre (French, 1618–1682)
1653

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 24.8 × 31.4 cm (9 3/4 × 12 3/8 in.)(the frame by Le Pautre; trimmed within the platemark)
Image: 13.8 × 9.5 cm (5 7/16 × 3 3/4 in.)(oval; the portrait by Nanteuil, printed on the same sheet as the frame)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP4485
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Petitjean and Wickert 107, ii/iv; Robert-Dumesnil 127, ii/iii; Le Blanc 121, ii/iii
Marks Recto, bottom left, stamped in red ink, the mark of Henry F. Sewall, New York (1816-1896)(Lugt 1309); verso, center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Harvey D. Parker Collection (Lugt 1870)
ProvenanceEarly provenance not researched; Henry F. Sewall (1816-1896, New York, Lugt 1309); purchased by MFA, November 1897.