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Description: | unbound volume; binding in 11/E/12 s. in plate on plinth r. "R.Nanteuil Sculpebat 1653."; inscr. in plate on plinth l. "Juste pinx."; inscr. in oval frame "LOVYSE MARIE REINE DE POLOGNE ET DE SVEDE"; inscr. in plate on plinth "Telle, et plus Belle encor, la Divine Louysse / Sur le Throne du Nort brillant de ses atraits/ Etonna le Sarmate, et vainquit de ses traits/ Casimir, et son Frere, et l'Illustre Moyse / Par Monsieur l'Abbe de Villelain."; inscr. within plate mark hand-written b.c. "32."; inscr. in brown ink on supporting sheet b. c. "34."; inscr. hand-written in brown ink on supporting sheet t. c. "No. 34. [underlined]" CRE NANTEUIL, Robert; (French; 1623-1678) AFTER JUSTE; (active circa. 1653-1662) Part of William Hunter's original bequest, this is one of two volumes containing 216 engraved portraits by or after Robert Nanteuil. Head of the great school of 17th century French portrait engraving, his skill and reputation were unequalled. His sitters were distinguished figures of Louis XIV's court, mainly royalty, statesmen, military and church leaders.
Celebrated for its faithfulness to Nature and the simplicity of his designs , Nanteuil's work appealed equally to art lovers and to those fascinated by the achievements of 17th century France. Hunter's volumes are a rare surviving example of a comprehensive early 18th century collection of Nanteuil's work.
Occasionally Nanteuil worked after other portraitists, here a little-known painter named Juste.
Marie Louise de Gonzague-Nevers (1611-1667) became Queen of Poland and Sweden when she married Ladislas IV in 1646; following his death in 1649 she married his brother Jean Casimir II.
The print was engraved for Antoine Girard de Saint Amant's epic 'Moyse Sauve', published in Paris in 1653. Gentleman-in-waiting to Marie - Louise since 1645, the baroque poet Saint-Amans was a successful writer. It is one of a group of seven portraits of women in the volume. Nanteuil engraved portraits of just eight women during his whole career. | 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 : FASHION : QUEEN : FRONTISPIECE : HUNTER VOLUME : ROYALTY : | 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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