Louis seize, Roi des Francais, restaurateur de la liberte ..: presente au Roi et a Assemblee Nationale par l'auteur [engraving]

Louis seize, Roi des Francais, restaurateur de la liberte ..: presente au Roi et a Assemblee Nationale par l'auteur [engraving]

Paris Felix Hermet, Imprimeur Editeur [188-?]

1 print ; image 71 x 53 cm. framed 97 x 79 cm.

P&E L1959.765.1 framed

A full-length portrait of King Louis XVI of France in his coronation robes, after the portrait by Antoine François Callet held at Versailles. Bervic kept pace with the revolutionary movement, and at one of the meetings of the 'Société populaire des Arts' broke the copper-plate of the king's portrait, and tore in halves all the proofs of it which he possessed. The plate has since been skillfully repaired by Chollet, and later impressions taken from it. (Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, New York: McMillan, 1903, v. 1, p. 127.)
A restrike from the original 1790 plate.
At bottom, below the mat, in more modern type it reads: "Felix Hermet, Imprimeur Editeur, Paris ..."
Gift of Paul A. Rockwell.
Digitized image available, see URL

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