print
- Museum number
- K,67.146
- Title
- Object: René Descartes
- Description
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Portrait of philosopher René Descartes, after Frans Hals; bust-length, turned to left; in oval frame surmounted by crown and sword, and with books at the bottom
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1775-1813 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 174 millimetres (cut)
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Width: 118 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Presumably a copy in reverse of the plate by Ficquet (for impression in BM see 1888,0619.46).
Painting by Frans Hals, 1649, 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.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- K,67.146
