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Description: | bound volume (65.5 x 50.5 x 5.5 cm) inscr. in oval frame "FRANCOIS VANDER MEULEN NATIF DE BRUXELLES, PEINTRE ORDINAIRE DE L'HISTOIRE DU ROY TRES-CHRETIEN"; s. below portrait b.r. "Grave par P. Van Schuppen. 1687."; inscr. below portrait b.l. "Peint par N. de Largillierre"; inscr. on plinth below portrait "C'est de Louis Le Grand, le Peintre incomparable / Qui de ses plus beaux faits a peint la Verite, / Et qui sans le secours des couleurs de la fable, / Le fait voir de qu'il est a la Posterite."; inscr on plate b.c. "Se Vend a Paris Chez P. Van Schuppen rue St Jaques" and "Avec Privilege du Roy" CRE SCHUPPEN, Pieter Louis van; (Flemish; 1627-1702) AFTER LARGILLIERE, Nicolas de; (French; 1656-1746) PUB SCHUPPEN, Pieter Louis van; (Flemish; 1627-1702) Part of William Hunter's original bequest, this volume contains 112 engravings after paintings made or published by van der Meulen. A Flemish Baroque artist who specialised in horses and landscapes, he was invited to work for Louis XIV as a painter of views of royal castles, hunting scenes, processions, travels and military campaigns. Travelling with the troops and sketching on the battlefield, van der Meulen's fresh style was influential in the development of the relatively new genre of battlescapes. Following the success of his paintings recording the campaigns in Flanders he had many of his works engraved. Most were included in the remarkable collection of engravings known as the Cabinet du Roi originated with Louis XIV's minister J.B. Colbert. By 1670 these engravings were published in volumes and presented as gifts to visiting dignitaries or offered for sale. Hunter's volume, still in its late 17th century binding, is a now rare surviving example.
This portrait, used as a frontispiece, is after Largillierre, one of the most admired portraitists of Louis XIV's reign. It was engraved by one of van der Meulen's fellow countrymen settled in France, Pierre Louis van Schuppen, a pupil of the great master of 17th century French portrait engraving Robert Nanteuil. | 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: | PAINTER : LOUIS XIV : KING : VIEW : MILITARY CAMPAIGN : FRANCE : OVAL : VOLUME : PORTRAIT : ARTIST'S PORTRAIT : HUNTER VOLUME : REPRODUCTIVE PRINT : | 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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