Alexius van Edessa, Claude Mellan, 1649

Title(s)

Alexius van Edessa
S. Alexius Romanus (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-2018-3629

Catalogue reference

• IFF 17e siècle 55-1(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• inscription: ‘m’

Artist

• print maker: Claude Mellan (mentioned on object)
• after own design by: Claude Mellan (mentioned on object)
• Lodewijk XIV (koning van Frankrijk) (mentioned on object)

Place

France

Dating

1649

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 428 mm × width 311 mm

What

• the confessor Alexi(u)s of Rome (or Edessa); possible attributes: staircase

Acquisition

unknown 2018

Copyright

Public domain

• Inventaire du fonds français : graveurs du XVIIe siècle, dl. 17, p. 57, cat.nr. 55