Forbin, Claude, Comte de, 1656-1733 – Vintage Print
![Forbin, Claude, Comte de, 1656-1733, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/19/198f2033c080-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of Forbin, Claude, Comte de, 1656-1733. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Forbin, Claude, Comte de, 1656-1733
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Few men of the Louis XIV era spent as much of their career at sea as Claude de Forbin, and this portrait presents him as a naval man rather than a courtier. Born in Provence in 1656, Forbin rose through French naval and privateering service, fighting against the Dutch and English and later serving on a diplomatic mission to Siam. His memoirs, published after his death in 1733, offer a frank account of life aboard French warships. The engraving is undated and its attribution is uncertain, so it is best read as a likeness made for a reader of his reputation, not as a record drawn from life.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Engraving by de Lorraine? This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.I.; Pub. Ind.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,123 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-156969 |
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