17th century
Flemish
Works On Paper
Prints
engraving on laid paper
Sheet (Trimmed within platemark): 20 3/8 × 15 1/2 in. (51.75 × 39.37 cm)
35.1.257
Not on view
Printed around center oval: "CAROLUS LE BRUN EQUES REGIS PICTORUM PRINCEPS"; lower left oval: "SUBLIMIOR CUNCTIS"; lower right oval: "VARIOS TRAHIT INDE COLORES". Printed in plaque lower center: "Au siecle de Loüis Pheureux sort te fit naistre,/ Il luy falloit un Peintre, Il te falloit un maistre/ Qui fournist a ton art plus d'un noble dessein./ Par toy nous triomphons d'Athenes et de Rome./ Il n'est que toy Le Brun pour peindre un sigrand homme/ Comme Il n'est que Loüis, pour occuper ta main./ Offerebat Humillimus seruus Gerardus Edelinck". Printed in plate lower left: "N. de Largillierre Pinxit"; lower right: "G. Edelinck sculpsit/ et ex cum priuil Regis"
Gift of John Barton Payne
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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