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Description: | bound volume (54.5 x 39.5 x 7.5 cm) s. in plate on plinth b.r. "Robertus Nanteuil Sculpebat."; inscr. in plate on plinth b.l. "Carolus le Brun pinxit."; inscr. in oval frame "POMPONIVS DE BELLIEVRE SE= NATVS GALLIARIVM PRINCEPS-"; inscr. in plate b.c. "105."; inscr. in brown ink on supporting sheet b. c. "12"; inscr. hand-written in brown ink on supporting sheet t. c. "No. 12. [underlined]"
CRE NANTEUIL, Robert; (French; 1623-1678) AFTER LE BRUN, Charles; (French; 1619-1690) 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 after painter Charles le Brun who was at the time rapidly rising to become France's most prominent painter. Pomponne de Bellievre was an influential French magistrate, ambassador to England, statesman and president of Parliament in Paris from 1653 to 1657. He is placed in the volume alongside other such figures. A print after an earlier portrait of Bellievre by another leading French painter, P. Champaigne, is also included in the volume. | 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 : HUNTER VOLUME : MAGISTRATE : SKULLCAP : FUR : COAT OF ARMS : | 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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