print
- Museum number
- 1929,0724.6
- Description
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Portrait of Cardinal de Fleury; half-length, frontal view, after Rigaud; progress proof before letters, printed in brown, blue and yellow ink. 1738
Colour mezzotint
- Production date
- 1738
- Dimensions
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Height: 612 millimetres
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Width: 462 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- One of four colour separation proofs of this plate: see 1929,0724.3 to 6. It is after a portrait by Rigaud, probably either the one in the Wallace collection (P130) or in the National Gallery in London (NG 930); both paintings of which are copies after a painting at Versailles; another impression of this progress proof is in the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in Paris. See also: F. Rodari (ed): 'Anatomie de la Couleur; L'invention de l'estampe en couleurs', Bibliothèque nationale de France/ Musée Olympique Lausanne, 1996, cats 53-57 (which also illustrates the final state, which is not in the BM but in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Estampes, AA 4. rés) and: Margaret M Grasselli (ed): 'Colourful Impressions; The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France', National Gallery of Art Washington, 2003-4, p.43 and Otto M. Lilien: 'Jacob Christoph Le Blon, Inventor of Three and Four Colour Printing', Stuttgart, 1985, p.131.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1929
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1929,0724.6