Tombeau du Cardinal de Richelieu dans l'église de la Sorbonne, Paris. Cardinal Richelieu's tomb. After the cenotaph by the sculptor François Girardon (Troyes 1628-Paris 1715).

Picart, Bernard (Paris 1673-Amsterdam 1733).

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c. 1695. Large oblong etching and engraving on strong laid paper; the interior of the church, with view of Cardinal Richelieu's tomb: reclining figure of the Cardinal, supported by the female figure of Religion, with the female figure of Science weeping at his feet; two putti holding his coat of arms sitting at his side on the left. Signed underneath in the plate: "F. Girardon invenit et fecit C.P.R. - B. Picart ex marmore delineavit et sculp." With two columns of five lines of Latin dedication to Charles Maurice Le Tellier in lower margin (see below), his arms in center of bottom margin. 34,4 x 37,2 cm.*Nagler XII, 414, No. 119. In database of British Museum. The famous tomb of Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu (1585-1642), French cleric, statesman, patron of arts. The dedication to Charles Maurice le Tellier (1642-1710), archbishop of Reims: "Illustrissimo Ecclesiae Principi Carolo Mauritio Le Tellier . Ectypum sepulchri Richeliani in marmoris visceribus arte mentis et manus inventi, exacti, et in Templo Sorbonico Parisiis erecti anno 1695 . Franciscus Girardon sculptor Regius". The printmaker Bernard Picart, trained in Paris but worked in the Netherlands 1696-1698, returned to Paris and after the death of his wife and children turned Huguenot, and left definitively for Holland in 1710, settled initially in The Hague, then in 1711 in Amsterdam. - Trimmed to plate-mark, outside the border line. Small defect to left upper corner, not touching image. A few brown spots. Collector's stamp on verso of 'Grossh. Museum zu Schwerin' (Lugt No. 2273). [(5980)]. N° de réf. du vendeur 5980

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