Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 240 × 161 mm. (9 7/16 × 6 5/16 in.)
Plate: 120 × 86 mm. (4 3/4 × 3 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Blanche Adler Memorial Fund
Object Number
2019.44
Portrait of Maddelena Corvina (1607-1664)
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2019, James A. Bergquist
Jacobs 4 rotation, February 4 - November 30, 2020 (roughly 6 months on view; works covered during COVID-19 closures)
Inscribed: Recto: in image, in oval frame surrounding portrait, in plate "MADALENA CORVINA PITRICE ET MINIATRICE ROMANA"; in image, lower left, in plate " C.Mellan del. et S."; in image, lower right, in plate "Romae 1.6.3.6."; below image, lower margin, in plate, three lines of text beginning "AParis chez Odieuvre Md. d'Estampes [...]"
