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Charles Perrault Cons. Du Roy Controlleur General Des Batiments De Sa Maté

Print
1675 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Étienne Baudet (engraver)
Charles Le Brun (artist)
Place of origin
France (printed)

Print, portrait of a man, head and shoulders, facing half right, within an oval border with letters.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Portraits
Object type
Print
TitleCharles Perrault Cons. Du Roy Controlleur General Des Batiments De Sa Maté (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Engraving
Brief description
Print, portrait of Charles Perrault, engraving by Étienne Baudet after Charles Le Brun, 1675.
Physical description
Print, portrait of a man, head and shoulders, facing half right, within an oval border with letters.
Dimensions
  • Height: 29.2cm (cut)
  • Width: 19.4cm (cut)
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
  • 'Charles Perrault Cons. Du Roy Controlleur General Des Bastimens De Sa Maté. Carol le Brun Pinxit an 1665. Step. Baudet sculp an. 1675. jussu Acad. Reg. Pict. et Sculpt.' (Lettered)
  • (Stamped with the mark of the collection of Sydney Vacher (1854-1935) (Lugt 2376))
Credit line
Given by Edgar Seligman
Subjects depicted
Architect
Administrator
Author
Charles Perrault
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.
  • 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.68-1960

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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