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France Asking the Gods for a Minister

Michel Dorigny and Simon Vouet

France Asking the Gods for a Minister

1650

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France Asking the Gods for a Minister

1650

Physical Qualities Etching and engraving, Sheet: 500 x 338 mm. (19 11/16 x 13 5/16 in.) Plate: 245 x 203 mm. (9 5/8 x 8 in.)
Credit Line Blanche Adler Memorial Fund
Object Number 2006.94
From a series reproducing the Decoration of the Gallery of the Hôtel Séguier
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2006; Hill-Stone, Inc., New York
Robert-Dumesnil, A. P. F. Le peintre-graveur français, ou catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française, ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de M. Bartsch (Paris: Gabriel Warée, Mme Huzard, etc., 1835-1871): vol. IV, pp. 247-300; vol. XI, pp. 79-82, no. 123.

Inscribed: Across bottom in plate: "S. Voüet pinxit. Cum priuilegio Regis. Mich. Dorigny sculp. 1651."

Markings: WM: at left center, cropped

Artist

Michel Dorigny

1616–1664

French, 1617-1665
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Artist

Simon Vouet

1589–1648

French, 1590-1649
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