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Le Chevalier Marin

Print
1621 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Isaac Briot (engraver)
Place of origin
France (printed)

Print, portrait of a man, half-length, facing half right, seated in an armchair, within a border of laurel leaves and fleurs-de-lis.


Object details

Categories
Portraits
Prints
Object type
Print
TitleLe Chevalier Marin (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Engraving
Brief description
Print, portrait of Giambattista Marino, engraving by Isaac Briot, 1621.
Physical description
Print, portrait of a man, half-length, facing half right, seated in an armchair, within a border of laurel leaves and fleurs-de-lis.
Dimensions
  • Height: 21.3cm
  • Width: 14.6cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1960: Volume 2, Edgar Seligman Gift. London: HMSO, 1966.
Style
French School
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'I. Briot, fecit, 1621.' (Signed and dated)
  • 'Le Chevallier Marin. Ant. de Fer excud.' (Lettered with 6 lines of French verse and)
  • (Stamped with the marks of the collections of the Defer-Dumenil family (19th century) (Lugt 739) and of Sydney Vacher (1854-1935) (Lugt 2376))
Credit line
Given by Edgar Seligman
Subjects depicted
Poet
Laurels
Fleur De Lis
Giambattista Marino
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1960: Volume 2, Edgar Seligman Gift. London: HMSO, 1966.
  • Le Blanc, Charles. Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes. Paris: É Bouillon, 1854-1908.
  • Robert-Dumesnil, A.P.F. Le Peintre-Graveur Français. Paris: G. Warée, 1835-71.
  • Firmin-Didot, Ambroise. Les Graveurs de Portrait en France. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1875-9.
  • Bibliothèque National. Inventaire du Fonds Français. Paris: M. le Garrec, 1930.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.135-1960

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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