ID: 700001337 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001337	Record Type: Movable Work

[Portrait of Henri de Lorraine, comte d'Harcourt, called Cadet à la perle] (engraving (print); Antoine Masson (French engraver, 1636-1700); Nicolas de Poil...; Published: 1667; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 1569-752; 547010; accession number: 2000.PR.47**)

Note: Title from exhibition catalog "Mignard d'Avignon (1606-1668)" (Avignon, Palais des Papes, 1979); Date from inscription on print; Four states are known of this print: one described by Duplessis, the other three by Robert-Dumesnil. This state, without number 4 in the margins, and before the re-work on the arch and at the top of the subject's head, is not mentioned by either bibliographer. Duplessis describes a similar state in the Dutuit collection, except for the address in the lower right corner, missing in this print: Masson fecit et excudit cum Priuil. Regis; A reproductive print after a lost painting by Nicolas Mignard of Henri de Lorraine, comte d'Harcourt, a distinguished French general who fought in the wars against Spain in Catalonia, Flanders, and Italy, as well as in Louis XIII's campaigns against the Huguenots. He was nicknamed "Cadet à la Perle" because he was the youngest of his family and because he wore a pearl hanging from his ear. The general is shown in three-quarter length, turned to the right but looking directly towards the viewer. He is wearing an armour cuirass over a richly embroidered doublet and a white shirt; a long, curled peruke reveals a pearl at his left ear, and descends in two long curls, decorated with bows, over a laced ruff. The ruff covers parts of the order of Saint-Esprit (cf. Robert-Dumesnil). A fringed sash, decoratively arranged around the general's waist, covers a sword of which only the ornate grip is visible. He holds a truncheon in his extended left arm. His right hand rests on a vambrace, which, together with a plumed helmet and gauntlet, lays on a cloth covered table to the right; In the background on the right, the artists' addresses are inscribed on an arch below the entablature: N. MIGNARD AVENI. PIN. ANTO. MASSON SCVLP. 1667. An ivy branch hangs from above. A scene resembling a military campaign, with tents and a burning fortress, appears in the background on the left. The print bears an inscription below the image, but within the plate mark, in verse and in elegant calligraphy, in three lines on both sides of the arms of the House of Lorraine: L'Honneur qu'il s'est acquis est sy grand et sy juste / Et l'on aura pour luy tant d'estime et d'Amour / Que comme les grands Roys prenent le nom d'Auguste / Les plus fameux heros prendront celuy d'Harcourt; Prominent French painter and engraver; famous for his engraved images of arms and armor, and wigs; also for his reproductive work after Le Brun, Titian, Rubens, and Pierre and Nicolas Mignard.

Titles:

[Portrait of Henri de Lorraine, comte d'Harcourt, called Cadet à la perle] (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,,)

Cadet à la perle (C,U,undetermined,,)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

engraving (print) [300041340] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

reproductive print [300041569]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works))

print (visual work) [300041273]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: Published: 1667

Creator Display:

Antoine Masson (French engraver, 1636-1700); Nicolas de Poilly (French publisher, 1627-1696) [preferred,GRISC]

artist Masson, Antoine (French engraver, pastelist, and draftsman, 1636-1700) [500003609]

publisher Poilly, Nicolas de (French engraver, 1627-1696) [500051927]

Mignard, Nicholas (French painter, 1606-1668) [500028110]

Locations:

Current: Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500353615] Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1569-752; 547010; accession number: 2000.PR.47**

Credit Line: copyright J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections

Address Note: 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Other: Publication: Département de Ville-de-Paris [7002980] Île-de-France (region (administrative division)), France (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: 1 print: engraving, b&w

	prints (visual works) [300041273]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

	engraving (printing process) [300053225]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

	black-and-white (colors) [300265434]
	.......(Physical Attributes Facet, Color (hierarchy name), colors (hues or tints), neutrals (colors))

Dimensions: image 56 x 42.5 cm, on sheet 56.7 x 43 cm

General Subject:

portraits (preferred)

human figures

another work

military

Specific Subjects:

	Harcourt, Henri de Lorraine, Comte de (French noblmen, 1601-1666) [500354647]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	single-sitter portrait [300404138]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits) (AAT)

Inscriptions: In the background on the right, the artists' addresses are inscribed on an arch below the entablature: N. MIGNARD AVENI. PIN. ANTO. MASSON SCVLP. 1667; The print bears an inscription below the image, but within the plate mark, in verse and in elegant calligraphy, in three lines on both sides of the arms of the House of Lorraine: L'Honneur qu'il s'est acquis est sy grand et sy juste / Et l'on aura pour luy tant d'estime et d'Amour / Que comme les grands Roys prenent le nom d'Auguste / Les plus fameux heros prendront celuy d'Harcourt

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
[Portrait of Henri de Lorraine, comte d'Harcourt, called Cadet à la perle]	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 547010
Cadet à la perle	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

Subject: ....... [GRISC,VP]

....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

....................... Robert-Dumesnil, A. P. F. Le peintre-graveur français vol. 2, no. 34

Note:
English	..... [GRISC]
	..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)