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print
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frontispiece
Object Type
print
frontispiece
Museum number
1865,0610.48
Title
Object:
René Descartes chevalier seigneur du Perron
Description
Portrait of philosopher René Descartes, bust-length, turned to the left, dressed in black with white collar; in oval frame with coat of arms in the lower part; after Frans Hals; frontispiece to Adrien Baillet's "La Vie de M. Descartes" (Paris: 1691). c.1691 Engraving
Producer name
Print made by:
Gérard Edelinck
After:
Frans Hals
School/style
French
Dutch
Production date
1685-1691
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
284 millimetres
Width:
206 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
For another impression see also 1872,0511.1268. After the 1649 painting by Frans Hals, now in Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (on permanent loan from Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek), inv.no.998; see S. Slive. 'Frans Hals', exh.cat. Washington-London- Haarlem, 1989, London-Munich, cat.no.66. Also see copy in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, inv.no.1317.
Bibliographic references
Robert-Dumesnil 1835-71 / Le Peintre-Graveur Français
(VII.248.181.I)
Firmin-Didot 1875-77 / Les graveurs de portraits en France catalogue raisonné de la collection des portraits de l' École Française
(583)
IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes
(126)
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(23)
(after Frans Hals)
van Someren 1888 / Beschriivende catalogus van Gegraveerde Portretten van Nederlanders. Vervolg op Frederik Mullers catalogus van 7000 Portretten van Nederlanders.
(1419)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Portrait of:
René Descartes
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Holloway (& Son)
Acquisition date
1865
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1865,0610.48