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Allegory of Intelligence, Will, and Memory


The Faculties of the Mind
Claude Mellan (French, 1598–1688)
After: Simon Vouet (French, 1590–1649)
1625

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 55.3 × 37.7 cm (21 3/4 × 14 13/16 in.)(trimmed on the platemark)
Credit Line Bequest of Mrs. Arthur Croft—The Gardner Brewer Collection
Accession NumberM17898
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné IFF 259, only state; Le Blanc 170; Montaiglon 372
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