La Retorique (Rhetoric)

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series Title

The Liberal Arts

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 30 x 21.2 cm (11 13/16 x 8 3/8 in.)

sheet: 30.1 x 21.2 cm (11 7/8 x 8 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Mariette 1996, no. 46, State -53 (series)

Accession Number

2005.45.3

Artists / Makers

Gilles Rousselet (artist) French, 1610 - 1686

Grégoire Huret (artist after) French, 1606 - 1670

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: LA RETORIQVE; Jay sur les bons espritz la secrette puissance... / ... & les vertues encor, du Divin Caducée.; lower left in plate: Huret Inventor; lower center in plate: Rousselet fecit: lower right in plate: de l'impression de Mariette Avec Privilege

Provenance

(Pia Gallo, New York); purchased 2005 by NGA.

Associated Names

Gallo, Pia

Bibliography

1996: Mariette, Pierre Jean. Catalogues de la collection d'estampes de Jean V, Roi de Portugal. Edited by Marie-Thérèse Mandroux-França and Mazime Préaud. Lisbon and Paris, 1996. 3 vols.