[Portrait of Anne Geneviève de Bourbon-Condé, duchesse de Longueville] [graphic].

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Title
[Portrait of Anne Geneviève de Bourbon-Condé, duchesse de Longueville] [graphic].
Alternative Title
Elle sçait les beaux Arts, elle est noble elle est belle ...
Creator
Regnesson, Nicolas, 1620-1670, printmaker
Published / Created
[not after 1670]
Publication Place
France
Publisher
publisher not identified
Abstract

Portrait, half-length, in an oval border surrounded by laurel; adorned at the top with streamers and supported below by angels sitting on a pedestal

Description
Title devised by cataloger.
Four lines of verse etched within pedestal at bottom of image: Elle sçait les beaux Arts, elle est noble elle est belle; mais outre sa beauté sa douceur ses appas, on trouve cent vertus en elle, que ce portrait n'exprime pas.
Printmaker from Les graveurs de portraits en France.
Date of publication based on printmaker's death date.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 250 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.
Mounted in the center of a wash drawing (23.2 x 33 cm) entitled: View of Rochers, the country house of Madame Sevigné, in Britagne.
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 12.7 x 7 cm
Language
French

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Portraits
Portrait prints
Etchings France 1670
Engravings France 1670
Material
etching and engraving ;
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Longueville, Anne Geneviève de Bourbon-Condé, duchesse de, 1619-1679
Subjects
Longueville, Anne Geneviève de Bourbon-Condé, duchesse de, 1619-1679 > Portraits
France > 1670
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
13617369
Object ID (OID)
16824684

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