The library of Pierre Séguier: painting and music support putti trumpeting the fame of the library. Engraving by M. Dorigny after S. Vouet, 1640.

  • Vouet, Simon, 1590-1649.
Date:
1640
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567583i
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Pierre Séguier was chancellor of France and protector of the Academy. His library was decorated with paintings by Vouet, to which the present print provides a "porticus" or gateway

Publication/Creation

[Paris] : [publisher not identified], 1640.

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; platemark 42.2 x 28.6 cm

Lettering

Porticus bibliothecae illustriss. Seguierii Galliae Cancellarii a Simone Voüet pictore regio depicta ; M. Dorigny scul.

References note

Roger-Armand Weigert, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, cabinet des estampes, tome 3, Paris 1954, pp. 480-484, no. 76

Reference

Wellcome Collection 567583i

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