Claude Mellan
Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani, 1564 - 1637. Banker and art Collector
About this artwork
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artist:Claude Mellan (1598 - 1688) French
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title:Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani, 1564 - 1637. Banker and art Collector
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date created:1631
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materials:Engraving and etching on paper
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measurements:29.30 x 20.70 cm
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credit line:Mrs A.G. Macqueen Ferguson Gift 1950; transferred from the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
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accession number:P 7716
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Claude Mellan
Claude Mellan
Claude Mellan began engraving during his early twenties and became one of the leading engravers of his day. As well as a prolific engraver, he was also a painter, a draughtsman and a much sought after portraitist. He developed his own distinctive and technically complex style of engraving which...