Title:
Portrait of Jacques Benigne Bossuet
Creator/Contributor:
Pierre-Imbert Drevet, French, 1697-1739; after Hyacinthe Rigaud, French, 1659-1743
Date:
1723
Identifier:
1967.27.2
Format:
Print
Engraving
19 3/4 x 13 1/2
Notes:
Catalogue raisonne: Beraldi 61
Inscription: Recto, in plate below design, "Hyacinthus Rigaud pinxit" at l.l.; "Petrus Drevet sculpsit 1723." at l.r.; "JACOBUS
BENIGNUS BOUSSVET EPISCOPVS / Meldensis Comes Consistorianus, antea Serenissimi Delphini proeceptor, et primus Serenissimae
Ducis Burgundiae Eleemo / synarius.natus 27.a Septembris an. 1627 obiit 12.a Aprilis 1704." at center lower edge
Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, New York
Subject:
portraits; bishops