Description

Pierre Drevet (Paris, 1663 – Paris, 1738)

Pierre Drevet : Jacobus Benignus Bossuet Episcopus, 1723

Burin engraving

Proof on laid paper after Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743)

Letter: Annotated lower left Hyacinthus Rigaud pinxit, right Petrus Brevet sculpsit 1723; titled center JACOBUS BENIGNUS BOSSUET EPISCOPUS; annotated lower Meldensis Comes Consistorianus, antea Serenissimi Delphini praeceptor, et primus Serenissimae Ducis Burgundix Eleemo synarius. natus 27 septembris an 1627. obiit 12 aprilis 1704. / Hanc Effigiem, aeternum amoris ac venerationis monumentum incidi curavit / Jacobus Benignus Bossuet Episcopus Trecensis ex fratre nepos

Copper-cut print, sheet size H. 506 mm x L. 343 mm.

Condition: small tear at the top of the right margin without harming the subject, small hole visible on the left leg, scattered thinning and in the lower margin.

Description: Engraving by Pierre Drevet of the painted portrait of Abbé Bossuet by Hyacinthe Rigaud. Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, abbot of Savigny, was a French churchman, born in 1664 and died in 1743. Hyacinthe Rigaud is a French painter, specialized in the portrait.