Jacobus Benignus Bossuet
Pierre Drevet, French, 1663 - 1738
after Hyacinthe Rigaud, French, 1659 - 1743
1723
Engraving on laid paper
Sheet: 20 1/16 × 13 1/2 in. (51 × 34.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift in memory of Mrs. Harvey Fisk by her children
PR.974.405
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, on plate, lower left: Hacinthus Rigaud pinxit; lower right: Petrus Drevet sculpsit 1723.; center: JACOBUS BENIGNUS BOSSUET EPISCOPUS/Meldensis Comes...
Exhibition History
Unlayering Stereotypes: Selections from the Permanent Collection For Teaching Cultural Anthropology, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 7, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 24-August 20, 1995.
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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