Portrait of Sébastien Bourdon (1616-1671) / Laurent Cars / After Hyacinthe Rigaud
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1930.6
- Title
- Portrait of Sébastien Bourdon (1616-1671)
- Artist
- Laurent Cars
- Artist Nationality
- French
- Artist Life Dates
- 1699-1771
- Medium and Support
- engraving on heavy off-white laid paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1733
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- France (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- France (nation)
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Style/Group/Movement
- late Baroque
- Inscription
- Inscribed: in plate, in margin below image: Né en 1615. Inscription in plate: SEBASTIAN BOURDON/ de Monpellier [sic] Peintre ordinaire du Roy, Recteur en son /Académie de Peintre et de Sculpture /gravé par Laurent Cars pour sa réception à l'Académie en 1733.
- Dimensions
- 38.26 cm x 26.35 cm (15 1/16 in. x 10 3/8 in.)
- Century
- 18th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- intaglio print
- Secondary Object Type
- engraving
- Physical Description
- A young man with long hair looks over his shoulder at the viewer through an illusionistically described stone octagonal aperture. A heavy satin cloth cascades from his right shoulder towards the viewer and through the opening. On the near side of this rusicated aperture are the palette, brushes, drawing folio and a book, indentifying the sitter as an artist, the identification further secured by the canvas on an easle seen behind the figure.
- Subject Matter
- In order to be admitted to the Académie Royale, portrait engravers were required to create two engraved portraits. This portrait of the painter Sébastien Bourdon was one of the prints Cars produced as his reception piece to gain admittance to the Académie as an engraver. The conventions that governed official portraiture from the period are evident in this engraving, which is after a painting by Hyacinthe Rigaud now in the Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt. The figure is framed within an octagonal stone frame surrounded by the materials of his profession: easel and canvas, paper, palette, brushes, and a book. Another feature common to these portraits was the use of drapery, either inside the framework or outside of it. Cars’ ability to denote different textures is evident in this work: the velvet coat and waving hair contrast with the sheen of the satin drapery, which cascades across the stone frame forward into the viewer’s space.
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 885 x 1261
- File Size
- 168 KB
- Record
- 1930.6
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"Portrait of Sébastien Bourdon (1616-1671); Laurent Cars; After Hyacinthe Rigaud." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1930.6/1930.6.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 23, 2024.
