"Victor LeBoutillier: Archeveque de Tours" by Claude Mellan, Fr., (1598-1688) Watercolor There is some rippling

There is some rippling

a crisp and detailed impression of this fine angling image by Schaldach

influenced generations of artists

Alexander Brook

Swain Gifford

"Victor LeBoutillier: Archeveque de Tours" by Claude Mellan, Fr., (1598-1688) Watercolor There is some ripplingEngraving, 1658, ed. unknown, an early state of the full plate before inscriptions and before the plate was cut down to frame the head and shoulders against the drape at left and trees at right. The image measures 13 3 16 x 9 9 16, with thread margins, on a thin grayish laid paper, with an elaborate heraldic fish watermark. There is a collectors ink monogram recto lower left corner, and various old inscriptions and hinges on the verso, a vertical