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Frontispiece to "Lettre de la Duchesse de la Vallière à Louis XIV, Paris"

1773
Not on view

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Frontispiece to "Lettre de la Duchesse de la Vallière à Louis XIV, Paris"
  • Engraver: Jean-Pierre-Julien Dupin (French, active 1770–83)
  • Collaborator: Augustin de Saint-Aubin (French, Paris 1736–1807 Paris)
  • Artist: After Charles Le Brun (French, Paris 1619–1690 Paris)
  • Author: Related author Adrien-Michel-Hyacinthe Blin de Sainmore (French, Paris 1733–1807 Paris)
  • Date: 1773
  • Medium: Engraving
  • Dimensions: Plate: 6 3/4 × 4 5/16 in. (17.2 × 10.9 cm)
    Sheet: 11 1/8 × 7 1/2 in. (28.3 × 19 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
  • Object Number: 17.3.1792
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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