Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 561 x 412 mm. (22 1/16 x 16 1/4 in.)
Plate: 476 x 346 mm. (18 3/4 x 13 5/8 in.)
Image: 454 x 334 mm. (17 7/8 x 13 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.773
Portrait of a duke in armor and a leopard skin.
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (lugt supp. 555c).
Signed: 1
Inscribed: Verso: BL: "Peint par Hiacinthe Rigaud, Chev. de l'Ordre de St. Michel"; LWRC: (in matrix) "Maurice de Saxe/ Duc de Curlande et de Semigallie...etc"; LWRC: (outside matrix) "A Paris chez l'Auteur Quay des Augustins entre les Rues...etc"; BR: "Et Grave par J.G. Wille 1745"; BRC: (graphite in diamond) "1663". Verso: BL: Claghorn stamp; BR: Garrett stamp.
Markings: Claghorn and Garrett collectors' stamps.
