Les portraits des hommes illvstres françois : qvi sont peints dans la Galerie dv Palais Cardinal de Richeliev. Avec levrs principales actions, armes, deuises & eloges latins, desseignez & grauez par le sieurs Heince & Bignon, peintres & graueurs ordinaires du Roy. : Dediez a monseignevr Segvier Chancelier de France, comte de gyen, &c. / Ensemble les abregez historiqves le levrs vies ; composez par M. de Vvlson, sievr de La Colombiere ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vulson, Marc de, sieur de La Colombière, -1665.

Contributor:

Heince, Zacharias, 1611-1669, artist.

Bignon, François, b. ca. 1620, engraver.

Pepingué, Edme, publisher.

Sercy, Charles de, 1623-1700?

Luynes, Guillaume de, d. 1719?, publisher.

Foreign Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Devices (Heraldry)--Early works to 1800.

Devices (Heraldry).

France--Biography--Early works to 1800.

France.

France--Biography--Portraits.

Physical Description:

[63] p., [26] leaves of plates : ports. ; 43 cm.

Other Title:

Portraits des hommes illustres françois

Place of Publication:

A Paris : Chez Edme Pepingvé ... Charles de Sercy ... et Guillavme de Lvynes ..., 1655.

Notes:

Engraved title vignette and tail pieces; initials.

First published 1650.

Contains engraved frontispiece and 25 portraits hanging in the galleries of Armand Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu (1585-1642); plates drawn and engraved by Zacharias Heince and François Bignon; some libraries record an additional plate(s).

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Conserved and rebound in 2002 with a grant from the Florence Gould Foundation.

Athenaeum copy: Originally presented to the Athenaeum by Mrs. Benj. Hoffman, 1968.

Athenaeum copy: Includes 4 additional portraits not part of original work affixed to final pages and rear paste-down.