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

Top, portrait paintings of four kings: Philippe de Valois (Philip VI), Charles the Fair (Charles IV), Philip the Tall (Philip V), Louis le Hutin (Louis X). Below, two portrait paintings, of Cardinal Alderano Cybo and Pope Innocent XI, and between them a large still-life painting. At floor level, three closed cabinets on stands, holding animals, medallions and a clock, and with two small paintings above them: left, a painting of two walruses, right, a painting of the Château de St-Germain by M.r le Dauphin

Symmetrical composition in itself, also forming a symmetrical pair with pl. 6 (Wellcome Collection no. 35707i): in the present print, light falls from the right, there is a portrait of a cardinal on the left and a pope on the right, whereas in pl. 6 the light falls from the left, there is a portrait of a pope on the right and a cardinal on the left

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

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

F. Ertinger sc. Ao. 1688. L. D. Bears number: 5

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. 373 ('368-407. Pl. pour : Du Molinet (Le R. P. Claude). Le cabinet de la Bibliothèque de Sainte Geneviève... Paris, Antoine Dezallier, 1692. … sur les pl. 4-3 [i.e. 5]: "F. Ertinger sculpsit Ao1688", etc. … 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 35705i