Pierre Drevet and François de Troy
Louis Auguste de Bourbon, le duc du Maine
1706
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Engraving and etching, Sheet: 459 × 365 mm. (18 1/16 × 14 3/8 in.)
Plate: 456 × 364 mm. (17 15/16 × 14 5/16 in.)
Image: 447 × 359 mm. (17 5/8 × 14 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.3404
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (Lugt supp. 555c); Boilly?
Firmin-Didot, Ambroise, Les graveurs des portraits en France, catalogue raisonné de la collection des portraits de l'école française appartenant à A.F.D., Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1875-77, no. 440. Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes, Inventaire du fonds français: graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, vol.1-14, Paris: Le Garrec & Bibliothèque Nationale, 1930/31-1977, vol. 7 p. 331 no. 87.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: In pl., on frame: 'LUDOVICUS AUGUSTUS BORBONIUS DUX CENOMANENSIUM DOMBARUM PRINCEPS &c.'; LLE in image: 'Fr. de Troy pinxit'; LRE in image: 'P. Drevet Sculp'; LwrC in image: 'Offerebat Jacobus Du Champ Du Mont / Diaconus Turon.us S.ae F.is Baccal.us Theologus. / anno Domini 1706.'. VERSO: C (graphite): '86'; TC (graphite): illegible; LL: Claghorn stamp in red ink; & below (graphite): '1804'; BLC (graphite): '16207'; LRE (graphite, in diamond): '6976'; BRC (graphite): 'Boilly / 237'; BL (graphite): '[A/-?]'. From mount?: 'Did. (Drev)61 - 1st st. Did (Ports)440 Wat. Boilly coll.'.
Markings: none - double-headed eagle
