Claude Mellan
The Three Graces (frontispiece to Balthazar de Vias’s Charitum libri tres)
1658
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Claude Mellan
The Three Graces (frontispiece to Balthazar de Vias’s Charitum libri tres)
1658
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 206 x 133 mm. (20.6 x 13.3 cm.)
Plate: 203 x 130 mm. (20.3 x 13 cm.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.3473
Publication References
Montaiglon, Anatole de, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de Claude Mellan, Abbeville, Briez, 1856, no. 314.
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (Lugt supp. 555c).
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Préaud, Maxime, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des Estampes, Inventaire du fonds français: Graveurs du XVIIe siècle, tome 17: Claude Mellan, Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1988, no. 357, ill. p. 208 (3rd state).
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: BL in pl.: 'CMellan in et f.'; BR in pl.: '1659'. VERSO: LR (graphite): '19-25 / O.F'; LwrC (graphite): '1er etat, avant le portrait (en circle) / et l'inscription'; BL: red Claghorn stamp, & (graphite, in diamond): '5612'; BRC (graphite): '2 3/4'.
Markings: none - [tree?]