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Claude Mellan: English: Face of ChristFrançais : Visage du Christ   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Claude Mellan  (1598–1688)  wikidata:Q1274026
 
Claude Mellan
Alternative names
Mellen; Mellan; Melan; C. Mellan
Description French painter, engraver, drawer, graphic artist, copper engraver and visual artist
Date of birth/death 23 May 1598 Edit this at Wikidata 9 September 1688 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Abbeville Edit this at Wikidata Paris Edit this at Wikidata
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Rome (1624–1636); Paris (1636–1688) Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q1274026
Title
English: Face of Christ
Français : Visage du Christ
Date 1649
date QS:P571,+1649-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium engraving
institution QS:P195,Q193563
Inscriptions
FORMATVR VNICVS VNA
NON ALTER
MELLAN G. P. ET F.
IN ÆDIBUS REG.
1649
Source/Photographer Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
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