Francoise Davbigny Marqvise de Maintenon [graphic]

Description

Title: Francoise Davbigny Marqvise de Maintenon [graphic]
Alternative Title: Françoise Daubigny Marquise de Maintenon
Creator: Giffart, Pierre, 1638-1723, printmaker, publisher
Contributor: Mignard, Pierre, 1612-1695, artist.
Published / Created: [1687]
Publication Place: Paris
Publisher: P. Giffart
Abstract: "Portrait of Madame de Maintenon, bust-length directed to right and looking to front, her dark hair in an updo and dressed with pearls, and wearing a pearl earring and a pearl necklace, in an oval frame, surrounded by four medallions celebrating her virtues, and her coat of arms at the bottom."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text in image.
Publisher and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.1341.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted opposite page 96 (leaf numbered '145' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Provenance: Formerly owned by R.B. Sheridan (the dramatist's grandson), who undertook the copious extra-illustration of the volumes. Later owned by Sheridan's descendant Lady Wavertree. Sotheby's, 25 May 1954 (Lady Wavertree sale), lot 266, to Maggs for W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 39.1 x 31.5 cm, on sheet 39.2 x 31.9 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: French