Francois de Malherbe, 1555-1628 – Historic Reproduction
![Francois de Malherbe, 1555-1628, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/df/dfbe027533d9-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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Francois de Malherbe, 1555-1628 comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Francois de Malherbe, 1555-1628
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François de Malherbe (1555–1628) was a French poet and critic who set the standards of classical clarity and order that shaped French verse for generations after him. This engraving presents him as a dignified man of letters, though the record gives no date and identifies the engraver only tentatively, as "C.F.?", working from a drawing by Dumotier. Malherbe's reforms, which favored regular meter and disciplined diction over the looser style of the Pléiade poets, made him a central figure in the literary culture of the court of Henry IV and Louis XIII. Portraits like this one circulated widely in that period as a way of honoring writers whose reputations rested on their influence.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Engraving by C.F.? after drawing by Dumotier. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: A/P/P I.; BI; Pub. Ind.(2); Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 997 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157446 |
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