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A full-length portrait of Louis XVI. in his coronation robes, after the portrait by Callet at Versailles, Bervic reproduced in black and white. Bervic kept pace with the revolutionary movement, and at one of the meetings of the 'Society populaire dee 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 Ghollet, 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.

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