André-Hercule de Fleury
Pierre Drevet, French, 1663 - 1738
after Hyacinthe Rigaud, French, 1659 - 1743
1730
Engraving on laid paper
Sheet: 20 1/2 × 15 3/8 in. (52 × 39 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift in memory of Mrs. Harvey Fisk by her children
PR.974.404
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Peint par Hyacinthe Rigaud Chevalier de l'Ordre de St. Michel.; lower right: Grave par P. Drevet; lower center: Andre Hercules, Cardinal de Fleury,/Grande Aumnier de la Reine, Ministre d'Etat, Grand Maitre et/Surintendant des Postes./Offrebat J.S. Brissartabbas Sti. Martini Nivernensis 1730.
Provenance
Elizabeth Richmond Fisk (1885-1966) [Mrs. Harvey Edward Fisk], Woodstock, Vermont; to her children, Elizabeth Fisk Tyler (1912-1978), Margaretta Fisk Paine (1915-1952); Ursula Fisk Clough (1917-1989), and Anne Fisk Howe (1921-2001), 1966; given to present collection, 1974.
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