Claude Mellan
The Three Graces (frontispiece to Balthazar de Vias’s Charitum libri tres)
1659
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Claude Mellan
The Three Graces (frontispiece to Balthazar de Vias’s Charitum libri tres)
1659
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 206 x 133 mm. (20.6 x 13.3 cm.)
Plate: 203 x 130 mm. (20.3 x 13 cm.)
Portfolio/Series
Charitum libri tres, Paris: Edmond Martin, 1660, in-4o.
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.3473
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (Lugt supp. 555c).
BMA, Jacobs 5 rotation, October 5, 2021 - April 19, 2022.
Montaiglon, Anatole de, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de Claude Mellan, Abbeville, Briez, 1856, no. 314.
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?]
