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Description: | A reproduction produced by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Claude Mellan. The drawing is a portrait of Michel Le Tellier. His facial features are detailed, but his clothes are only loosely sketched in and there is no background detail. The drawing has a double black border and an inscription underneath naming the subject and the artist.
Text from the accompanying booklet produced by the Vasari Society:
"No. 25
CLAUDE MELLAN
(b. 1598; d. 1678)
PORTRAIT OF MICHEL LE TELLIER THE ELDER
Collection of Captain E. G. Spencer Churchill, Northwick Park. Black chalk.
12.8 x 10 cm. (5 x 3 15/16 in.).
Michel Le Tellier, chancellor of France (1603-1685). Mellan never engraved Le Tellier's portrait: but for a very similar presentment compare Nanteuil's engraving (Robert-Dumesnil 120). Both drawings have been inlaid and had inscriptions added in the eighteenth century (?).
A. E. P."
Technique: REPRODUCTION
Technique: collotype (print)
Reproduction by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Claude Mellan, Portrait of Michel Le Tellier the Elder (1933.448). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.105319 | Go to resource |
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