About the Artwork
Jean François Paul de Gondy, Cardinal of Retz
ca. 1690
Claude Duflos
1665-1727
French
Unknown
Engraving and etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 8 1/8 × 5 1/2 inches (20.6 × 14 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S376
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, in plate, lower left of image: C. Duflos Scup.
Inscribed, in plate, as part of image, lower center, on both sides of heraldic device : IEAN FRANCOIS | Cardinal de Retz da [ ] moiseau Souverain de | Commercy, et Prince [ ] d'eauville Archeveque | de Paris Abbé de St De [ ] nis en France de Buzaj | de Kimperlé et de [ ] la Chaulme & C. | Mort a Paris [ ] le 01 Aoust | 1679 . agé de 65 . ans .
Stamped, verso: Scripps 1885 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added to stamp in ink]
Provenance
June 1885, N.C. Perkins. Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Roux, Marcel. Inventaire du fonds français: Graveurs du XVIIIE siècle. Paris, 1955, no. 153.
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Claude Duflos, Jean François Paul de Gondy, Cardinal of Retz, ca. 1690, engraving and etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S376.
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