Saint Gregory the Great: thinking himself unworthy to be Pope, he retires to a cave and studies the scriptures, but churchmen come to persuade him to return to Rome. Engraving by P.P. Moles, 1769, after C. van Loo.

  • Vanloo, Carle, 1705-1765.
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[1769?]
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8617i
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Saint Gregory the Great: thinking himself unworthy to be Pope, he retires to a cave and studies the scriptures, but churchmen come to persuade him to return to Rome. Engraving by P.P. Moles, 1769, after C. van Loo. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Se vend à Paris (Rue Christine) : chez La Combe libraire ; [Paris] (Quay des Augustins) : chez Vernet le Jeune, m.d d'estampes, [1769?]

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1 print : engraving

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St. Gregoire retiré dans ne caverne. Dédié à Monseigneur Louis Sextius de Jarente de La Bruyère eveque d'Orléans, abbé com(m).re de St Vandrille &c. chargé de la feuille des benefices, directeur gen.l des economats et de la regie des biens des religionnaires, com(m)andeur de l'ordre du St Esprit ... Sors de cet antre obscur, entends la voix de Rome, / Et viens remplir un thrône où la vertu te nomme. Summi pontificis fugiens insignia, ab antro / Romanum ad solium, populo plaudente vocatur. Carolus Vanloo eques pinx. P.P. Molés sculp. 1769. Beauvais scrip. C.L.R. Bears number: No. 2

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Mercure de France, 1770, 11: 178-180

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Wellcome Collection 8617i

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"Gravé d'après le tableau de Carle Vanloo écuyer premier peintre du Roi, qui est dans le cabinet de l'Imperatrice de Russie"--lettering

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