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| 245 | 0 | 4 | $a Les Portraits Des Hommes Illustres François Qui Sont Peints Dans La Galerie Du Palais Cardinal De Richelieu · Avec Leurs Principales Actions, Armes, Devises, & Eloges Latins, Desseignez & gravez par les Sieurs Heince & Bignon, Peintres & Graveurs ordinaires du Roy. Dediez A Monseigneur Seguier Chancelier De France, Comte De Gyen, &c. Ensemble Les Abregez Historiques De Leurs Vies, Composez Par M. De Vulson Sieur De La Colombiere, Gentilhomme Ordinaire de la Chambre du Roy, &c. |
| 260 | # | # | $a A Paris, $b Edme Pepingué, en la Grand' Sale, du costé de la Cour des Aydes, proche la porre de la Sale Dauphine. Chez { Charles De Sercy, dans la sale Dauphine, à la Bonne-Foy Couronnée. Et Guillaume De Luynes, Libraire Iuré, en la Galerie des Merciers, sous la Montée de la Cour des Aydes.} Au Palais. - $c M.DC.LV. Avec Privilege Du Roy. $c [1655] |
| 300 | # | # | $a [66] p., frontis., port., [25] pl.; $c 457 mm. (Broadsheet.) |
| 505 | 0 | # | $a [Frontis., t.p., port., dedic.] - [Plates and texts] - Les Devises Heroyques Peints Dans La Galerie Du Palais Cardinal. (The order of the preliminary leaves varies from copy to copy.) |
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$a The frontispiece is captioned as drawn by Zac. Heince and engraved by Franc. Bignon, and is signed as engraved by Fra. Bignon. The portrait of the dedicatee and the [25] portraits are unsigned. The work is dedicated by Heince & Bignon to Monseigneur Seguier Chancelier De France. |
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$a A. Adams, S. Rawles, A, Saunders, A Bibliography Of French Emblem Books (2 vols. 1999-2002), vol. II. no. 621, p.619; J. Landwehr, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Books of Devices and Emblems, 1534-1827 (1976) no. 777; M. Praz, Studies in Seventeenth-Century Imagery (2nd. ed., 1964), p.532. B. Dorival, 'Recherches sur les portraits gravés aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles d'après Philippe de Champaigne', in Gaz. B.-A., n.s. 5, LXXV (1970), p.257-330. |
| 520 | 2 | # |
$a This is a record of the celebrated Galerie des Hommes Illustres, a series of portraits of French celebrities painted by Champaigne and Vouet for Richelieu's Palais Cardinal; of which only three paintings survive (Champaigne's 'Gaston de Foix' and 'Louis XIII', and Vouet's 'Gaucher de Chatillon' - all in the Louvre Museum). A somewhat shorter version had been published in 1650. |
| 561 | # | # | $a The title page is inscribed in ink, 'Jo: Barker' and '7. April. 1659; A Paris. Ex dono Dni Bradwardine Tyndall.' Purchased for RA Library in 1870 (see 'Librarian's Report for the Year 1870', RA Annual Report, Appendix No. 6, p. 29). |
| 563 | # | # | $a 20th-century brown cloth, upper cover carrying red morocco title-label lettered 'Portraits Des Hommes Illustres 1655'. |
| 600 | 1 | 4 | $a Richelieu |
| 600 | 1 | 4 | $a Champaigne |
| 600 | 1 | 4 | $a Vouet |
| 653 | # | # | $a Celebrities - Monarchs - France - History |
| 653 | # | # | $a Paintings - Portraits - France - History - 17th century |
| 653 | # | # | $a Collections - France - Paris - History - 17th century |
| 655 | # | 0 | $a Pictorial works - France - 17th century |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Heince $e draughtsman |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Bignon $e engraver |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Seguier $e dedicatee |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Pepingue $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Sercy $e bookseller |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Luynes $e bookseller |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Champaigne $e source artist |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Vouet $e source artist |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Vulson |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Barker $e previous owner |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Tyndall $e previous owner |