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Portrait of Pierre de Brach
Thomas de Leu (French, about 1555–about 1612)
about 1588 (see Note)
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 13.4 × 9.7 cm (5 1/4 × 3 13/16 in.)(trimmed on the platemark, or with thread margins in places)
Credit Line
Gift of Gordon Abbott and George Peabody Gardner
Accession Number22.956
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Robert-Dumesnil 325, i/ii; IFF 248, i/ii; Le Blanc 166
DescriptionAccording to Robert-Dumesnil, this portrait appeared in a book of poems by Pierre de Brach published in Bordeaux in 1576. However, the print contains the inscription "AETATIS SUAE XLI." Since Brach was born in 1547, he would have been 41 in 1588. Either Robert-Dumesnil or the inscription on the plate is mistaken.
Marks
Verso, bottom left, in pencil, the mark of Charles M. Petitjean, Versailles (died c. 1925)(Lugt 5416); verso, right,center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenancePetitjean Collection
PDP Register entry: Date acquired, 4/1/1922 [exact to month]
PDP Register entry: Date acquired, 4/1/1922 [exact to month]