A Madame la Duchesse de Montbason [graphic].

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Description

Title
A Madame la Duchesse de Montbason [graphic].
Alternative Title
A Madame la Duchesse de Montbazon
Contributor
Le Blond, Jean, -1666, publisher.
Published / Created
[between 1628 and 1657]
Publication Place
Paris
Publisher
Jean Leblond
Abstract

"Portrait of Marie de Bretagne, Duchess of Montbazon, bust-length, slightly turned to the left, with curly hair, pearl earring, pearl necklace, and dress with square neckline."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title engraved below image.
Publisher and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.3886.
Dedication to the Duchess of Montbazon by Jean Leblond engraved below image: Quoy qu'il ne soit pas possible, Madame, que l'art puisse bien representer l'extreme beauté ... Vostre tres-humble, et tres-obeissant seruiteur Iehan le Blond ...
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 63 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.
For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance
Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire; August 1937. Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
Extent
1 print : sheet 27.2 x 20 cm
Language
French

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Portrait prints
Engravings France Paris 1628
Material
engraving ;
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Montbazon, Marie d'Avaugour, duchesse de, 1610-1657,
Subjects
Montbazon, Marie d'Avaugour, duchesse de, 1610-1657
France > Paris > 1628
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
13439919
Object ID (OID)
16729666

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