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CLAUDE MELLAN

Abbeville 1598–1688 Paris

Portrait of Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580–1637)

Inscribed by a later hand in pen and ink, old backing board, Mellan, with a drawing of a coat-of arms


Black chalk

5¾ x 4¼ inches

145 x 110 mm

Provenance

George Usslaub (b. 1885), Marseille, his mark, on the old backing board (Lugt 1221)

Private collection, France


Drawn in 1636


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