PROVENANCE
Prints and a Few Drawings from Great Collections of the Past
  1. Master MR, Christ on the Cross
  2. Dürer, St. Bartholomew
  3. Dürer, Christ Before Caiaphas
  4. Raimondi, Philosophy
  5. Raimondi, Façade with Caryatids
  6. Beham, Job Conversing
  7. Beham, Satyr Sounding a Horn
  8. Beham, Peasant Couple Walking
  9. Caraglio, Martyrdom of St. Paul
  10. Aldegrever, Standard Bearer
  11. Pencz, Feeding the Hungry
  12. Pencz, Artemisia Preparing
  13. Falconetto, Tomb Surmounted
  14. Claesz, St. Peter Seated
  15. Treu, Noble Dancers
  16. Master FP, Hercules Killing
  17. Brun, February
  18. Solis, Arithmetria
  19. de Bruyn, The Circumcision
  20. Sadeler, Virgin and Child
  21. Goltzius, A Young Man
  22. Matham, The Planets
  23. Brizio, Extensive Landscape
  24. van de Velde, Fête Villageoise
  25. van de Velde, Backgammon
  26. van Uyttenbroek, Tobias
  27. van Uyttenbroek, Bacchus
  28. Rembrandt, The Small Lion Hunt
  29. Hollar, Woman with Headdress
  30. Saftleven, Dutch Peasant
  31. Ostade, Bust of a Peasant
  32. Stoop, A Grazing Horse
  33. Fyt, Set of Animals
  34. Bega, The Three Drinkers
  35. Anonymous, Landscape
  36. Nanteuil, Charles Benoise
  37. Nanteuil, Cardinal Mazarin
  38. Nanteuil, Pierre Seguier
  39. van Vliet, St. Jerome Sitting
  40. Cossin, Ornament Design
  41. Sirani, St. Eustace
  42. Somer, Hagar and Ishmael
  43. Daullé, La Muse Clio
  44. Tiepolo, The Holy Family
  45. MacArdell, Hannah, Mrs. Horneck
  46. Laurie, Elizabeth, Dutchess
  47. Denon, Village Scene
  48. Charlet, Les Français
  49. Pieraccini, Holy Family
  50. Daumier, Y n’y a rien comm’
  51. Daubigny, Les Ruines du Chateau
  52. Daubigny, Lever de Lune
  53. Meryon, Le Petit Pont
  54. Rops, La Poupée du Satyre
  55. Whistler, Old Hungerford Bridge
  56. Legros, Un Coin de Rivière
  57. Buhot, Frontispice
  58. Forain, La Rencontre
  59. Pennell, Hampton Court Palace
  60. Delâtre, Silhouette de Femme

38. Robert Nanteuil (1623-1678)
after Charles le Brun
Pierre Seguier (Le Chancelier)

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Nanteuil, Pierre Seguier

Pierre Seguier (Le Chancelier)

Other Images:

Engraving, 1657, 323 x 245 mm., Robert-Dumesnil 223 i/iii, Petitjean & Wickert 208 i-ii/iv. Exceedingly fine impression on laid paper, trimmed just inside the borderline and thus removing the narrow plate margin with (or without) the vertical line that distinguishes P&W's 1st and 2nd states (the 1st state is RRR); tiny nick at the upper right edge, tiny tear at the left edge, the sheet edges slightly browned, some old tape verso. Seguier was Chancellor of France until his death. The year of his death and his age (84) have been inscribed in brown ink in an old hand on either side of his coat of arms.

Provenance:
Junius S. Morgan (ref. Lugt 1536) The mark here does not correspond exactly to the one illustrated in Lugt, but is, like that one, inscribed in pencil on the reverse of the print and is certainly authentic. Morgan (1867-1932), the nephew of J. Pierpont Morgan, was a banker, living in Princeton, N.J. and later in Paris. He was a collector both of Delft pottery and of prints, the latter collection containing, according to Lugt, an exceptional group of Dürers and a famous impression of Rembrandt’s Jan Six in addition to many other fine works. A portion of his print collection was left to Princeton University (of which he was a graduate), and a portion to the Metropolitan Museum of New York. His portrait engravings, including “belles feuilles de Nanteuil,”of which this would be one, were sold in New York in 1916 at the American Art Association.