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Portrait of Jean-Paul Bignon
1700
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 47.9 × 35.9 cm (18 7/8 × 14 1/8 in.)(trimmed on the platemark)
Credit Line
Bequest of Washington Irving Jenkins
Accession NumberM26566
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
This impression is of a state not described by Robert-Dumesnil, perhaps a state between ii/iv and iii/iv. The inscription in the lower margin is "Joannes Paulus Bignon Abbas / S.ti Quintini, Comes consistorianus. AEtatis anno 38. / Offerebat Humill. Servus Ioan.s Anisson Typograph.ae Regiae Praefectus 1700".
Catalogue Raisonné
Robert-Dumesnil 151, an undescribed state (see Note); IFF 192; Le Blanc 151
Marks
Verso, right center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceBy 1916, Washington Irving Jenkins (b. 1848 - d. 1916; Lugt 4831), Clinton, MA; 1917, bequest of Jenkins to the MFA. (Acquisition Date: August 1, 1917)