print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- O,6.36
- Title
- Object: Balthazar Baro natif de Valence
- Description
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Portrait of French poet Balthazar Baro, bust directed to right and looking towards the viewer, wearing a ruff, in oval border with architectural setting, and a seated putto on either side; illustration to Barbo's "La Conclusion et dernière partie d'Astrée" (Paris: François Pommeray, 1628)
Engraving
- Production date
- 1628 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 158 millimetres (plate-mark)
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Width: 97 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The plate was also used in Honoré d'Urfé's "L'Astrée" (Paris: A. de Sommaville, 1633), volume V; see IFF 659-677.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: La Conclusion et dernière partie d'Astrée
- Acquisition date
- 1810 (before)
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- O,6.36
