Portrait of Cardinal de Polignac

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

François Chéreau, the elder

Title

Portrait of Cardinal de Polignac

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1729

Medium

Engraving on ivory laid paper

Inscriptions

Lettered, lower right:"Gravé par François Chereau, Graveur du Cabinet du Roi 1729"; lower left: "Peint par Hyacinte Rigaud, Chevalier de l'Ordre de St. Michel."; below image: "Melchior S.R.E. Presbyter, tituli S.toe Marioe de Angelis ad terminos Cardinalis de Polignac, / Archiepiscopus Auscitanus, Abbas e Comes Corbeioe Aquiscincti, Boniportus, Mausonii e Begarii, / Regiorum Ordinum Commendator, Regiis apud Sanctam Sedem negotiis Proefectus; antea Ludovici / Magni Legatus in Poloniam e Batavium, Sacroe Rota Auditor e Regii Sacelli Magister."

Dimensions

Image: 47.1 × 33.9 cm (18 9/16 × 13 3/8 in.); Sheet, cut within platemark: 47.6 × 34.5 cm (18 3/4 × 13 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Elizabeth Hammond Stickney Collection

Reference Number

1887.302

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