French: Artist Unknown

Miniature Portrait of Madame Helyot, French Mystic of the Seventeenth Century

Madame Hélyot (1645-1682), French,
Roman Catholic Mystic of the Seventeenth Century

French
circa 1800
Artist unknown -- painted after a seventeenth century portrait (current whereabouts unknown)
by Jacques Galliot (ca. 1640–1687), and further reproduced in a
copperplate engraving by Gérard Edelinck (1640-1707)

3 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches (sight)

watercolor on ivory; housed under glass in a gilt wood and gesso frame

Copperplate Engraving of Jacques Galliot's Portrait of Madame Hélyot

Engraving by Gérard Edelinck (1640-1707), based on the work of
Claude François, known as frère Luc Recollet (pupil of Simon Vout),
and later painted by by Jacques Galliot (ca. 1640–1687).
(Inscribed to the extreme lower left, "F. Luc. Recol In, Iac Galliot pinx.",
and to the extreme lower right, G. Edelinck Sculpsit." ).

The inscription immediately below the portrait reads, "Portrait De Madame Hélyot /
dececedée a Paris le 3e Jour de Mars de lannée 1682, agée de 37 ans"
(in English, "Portrait of Madame Hélyot / who died in Paris on the 3rd day of March
in the year 1682, at the age of 37 years").

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