Name: 2-Antique Master Prints-MADAME-MELCHIOR-DE-GILLIER-PORTRAIT-Nanteuil-1652
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2-Antique Master Prints-MADAME-MELCHIOR-DE-GILLIER-PORTRAIT-Nanteuil-1652

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‘ON PEDESTAL: “LA VERTU QUI SE VOIT CE VISAGE / N’A VOULU PAROISTRE DANS CES LIEUX / A REPRIS LA ROUTE DES CIEUX / IL N’EN RESTE PLUS QUE L’IMAGE.” SIGNED AT LOWER RIGHT: “R. NANTEUIL AD VIVUM PINXIT ET SCULPSIT. 1652.”‘

– Elegant oval engraved portrait of Madame de Gillier (d.1650) shown half-length, facing the viewer with a calm expression. She wears a pearl necklace and an off-shoulder dress with a decorative clasp at the bodice, her curled hair arranged in the fashionable mid-seventeenth-century style. The portrait is set within an oval frame resting on a pedestal bearing a French verse referring to virtue and memory. And her spouse: Melchior de Gillier, Seigneur de Lagny (1589-1669), Maitre d’Hotel du Roi / councelor of King Louis XIII.

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Description

Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 25 x 32 cm (9.84 x 12.6 inch). Image size: 22 x 28 cm. (8.66 x 11.02 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, soiling and creases. Trimmed, as common. Remains of paper tape on rear from previous attachment. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

MADAME DE GILLIER PORTRAIT, ROBERT NANTEUIL ENGRAVING, 17TH CENTURY FRENCH PORTRAIT, ANTIQUE FEMALE PORTRAIT ENGRAVING, FRENCH NOBLE PORTRAIT | PCO-EXPO-PORTRAITS

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Source: unknown, to be determined.

State: State I/II.

Reference: Petitjean/Wickert 81.

Biography engraver: Robert Nanteuil (1623-1678) was a celebrated French portrait engraver and draughtsman, active in Paris. He was known for his finely detailed and lifelike engravings, particularly of French nobility and clergy. Appointed official portrait engraver to Louis XIV in 1657.