Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris: part of the cabinet of natural and artificial curiosities. Engraving by F. Ertinger, ca. 1688.

Top, portrait paintings of four kings: Henri III, Charles IX, François II, Henri II. Below, two portrait paintings, of Pope Pius V and the Cardinal François de La Rochefoucauld, and between them a painting of Romans worshipping at an altar. At floor level, three closed cabinets on stands, holding animals and a clock, and with two small paintings above them. Cardinal François de La Rochefoucauld had been abbot of the abbey of Sainte-Geneviève, and had died and been buried there

Symmetrical composition in itself, also forming a symmetrical pair with pl. 5 (Wellcome Collection no. 35705i): in the present print, light falls from the left, there is a portrait of a pope on the left and a cardinal on the right, whereas in pl. 5 the light falls from the left, there is a portrait of a cardinal on the right and a pope on the left

[Paris] : [Antoine Dezallier], [1692]

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image/platemark 31.2 x 23 cm

F. Ertinger sculp. L. D. Bears number: 6

Roger-Armand Weigert, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIe siècle, tome IV, Bibliothèque nationale, Cabinet des estampes, Paris 1961, pp. 115-116, Ertinger no. 374 ('368-407. Pl. pour : Du Molinet (Le R. P. Claude). Le cabinet de la Bibliothèque de Sainte Geneviève... Paris, Antoine Dezallier, 1692. … Cuivres à la Chalcographie du Louvre (Angoulvent, 1467-1483, 1491, 1633-1641, 1938-1943, 2494-2497, 5755-5760. Voir cat. des oeuvres d'art de la Bibl. Ste Geneviève, dans Mém. Soc. hist. de Paris, 1924.')

Wellcome Collection 35707i