Artist: Charles-Antoine Coypel [The Younger] (French, 1694-1752), First Painter to Louis XV of France, after.
Engraver: Gérard Edelinck (1640 - 1707) was a copper-plate engraver and print publisher of Flemish origin, who worked in Paris from 1666.
Title: Portrait of Pierre de Montarsis.
Reference: François Marandet. Pierre Le Tessier de Montarsis, and a network of picture dealers in early eighteenth-century Paris. The Burlington Magazine - n° 1418 vol CLXIII - May 2021. pp. 428-436.
Inscribed in plate, l.c.: Petri de Montarsis de bonis artibus optimè meriti Effigies, quam à se depictam Antonius Coypel, / In amicitiae & grati animi monimentum à Gerardo Edelinck aeri Incidi curavit. The data is hardly readable in l.r. corner: 1692. "Two" is printed in a mirrored image.
Dimensions: Image 13 3/8" x 11". Plate 14 5/8" x. 11 1/4". Sheet 17 3/8" x 13 3/4". Back sheet 20" x 15".
Date: 1692.
Materials and Techniques: Engraving on laid paper mounted on the back sheet. Watermark "pot".
Mat and Frame: back sheet.
Condition: Upper left corner is missing. Foxings. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Catalog Raisonne: Robert-Dumesnil (1835-71), Vol. VII. P. 302, # 277.
Museums and Libraries: The British Museum. 1877,0811.1242.
Note: Pierre de Montarsis was a friend of Charles-Antoine Coypel. Coypel painted a portrait of Montarsis reading Charles Perrault's "Les Hommes Illustres... ". In the Goldin Fine Art collection, there is an engraving by Gérard Edelinck after Lefèbvre portrait of Sébastien de Tillemont from that book.