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Description: | Sd in plate b.c.:Nanteuil sculp. Inscr in plate b.l.:Beaubrun Pin. Inscr in plate on tablet:Elle est du Sang des Roys,cette Illustre Personne,/Qui fait voir sous ses pieds les Vices abatus:/Et le pompeux esclat de leur riche couronne,/Brille moins que l'eslat de ses rares vertus./de Scudery CRE NANTEUIL, Robert; (French; 1623-1678) DES BEAUBRUN, Charles; (French; 1604-1692) R. Nanteuil was born in Reims, and was in Paris by 1647. Named king's engraver in 1659, he became the most successful portrait engraver of his time. Unlike many others, he mostly engraved portraits from his own drawings. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | PORTRAIT : FLEUR DE LYS : NECKLACE : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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