Artist: Pierre Drevet (1663-1738)
Title: Portrait of Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
Date: 1706
School: French XVIIIth
Medium: engraving
Dimensions: 415 x 300mm
Watermark: double-headed eagle (grand Aigle)
Inscriptions/marks: in the plate lower margin, <<Nicolavs Boileav Despreavx etc…>>; in the plate lower left <<HyacintheRigaud pinxit>>, in the plate lower right <<Petr. Dreuet scul. 1706>>, in the plate on the stone ledge below the subject’s hands, <<Amicissimi viri imaginem etc….>>
Condition: Good impression on laid paper with thread margins of the second state
Description: portrait of the poet and critic Nicolas Boileau after a painted portrait by Rigaud
Reference: IFF, Pierre Drevet 20, ii/ii
Provenance: Colette Mas, Paris
