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| Maker(s): | Mellan, Claude | | Culture: | French (1598 – 1688)
| | Title: | Portrait of Virginia de Vezzo
| | Date Made: | 1626
| | Type: | Print
| | Materials: | engraving on medium weight, slightly textured cream-colored laid paper
| | Place Made: | Lazio: Rome
| | Measurements: | Sheet: 9 13/16 x 6 1/8 in; 24.9 x 15.6 cm; Plate: 4 3/4 x 3 3/16 in; 12.1 x 8.1 cm; Image: 4 1/2 x 3 in; 11.4 x 7.6 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | signature/date on recto in image lower center printed: Cl. Mellan franc. f. Rom. 1626
| | Accession Number: | SC 2024.26.1
| | Credit Line: | Gift of David L. Chambers in memory of Jeanette Wales Blanton, class of 1922, Mary Wales Blanton, class of 1982, and Lucy Chambers Meigs, class of 1986
| | Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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Description: bust length portrait of a woman in an oval frame facing right with her hair up and a flower in the back
Tags: women artists; women; portraits Subjects: Women artists; Portraits; Engraving; Women Link to share this object record: https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=SC+2024.26.1 |
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