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Frontispiece-Title to Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, "La Vérité des fables ou l'Histoire des dieux d'antiquité"
Claude Mellan (French, 1598–1688)
1648
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 16.1 × 9.9 cm (6 5/16 × 3 7/8 in.)(with thread margins all around)
Credit Line
Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession NumberB2671
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
IFF 327, iii/iii; not in Le Blanc; Montaiglon 324
Marks
Verso, center, in pen and brown ink, the mark of J. Duflos (Lugt 702e); verso, lower center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Babcock Bequest (Lugt 207); verso, lower center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 1868)
ProvenanceJ. Duflos (Lugt 702e); William Perkins Babcock, Boston, Paris (1826-1899); his bequest to the MFA June 12, 1900