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[Bust sculpture of Jean Baptiste Colbert by Antoine Coyzevox?] – Historic Reproduction

[Bust sculpture of Jean Baptiste Colbert by Antoine Coyzevox?], [between 1900 and 1950] — historic photograph
[Bust sculpture of Jean Baptiste Colbert by Antoine Coyzevox?], [between 1900 and 1950]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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A sculpted head, not a living man, is the subject here: a bust of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the minister who managed French royal finances under Louis XIV. The title carries a question mark because the attribution to Antoine Coysevox is not settled. Colbert died in 1683, and his portrait came to stand for the state power he helped build, including the royal manufactories and academies he founded or reorganized. A photograph of the carving, made between 1900 and 1950, lets researchers study its form without traveling to France.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1950]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1950.
SubjectsColbert, Jean Baptiste,--1619-1683--Statues.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,273 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-180872

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