Title

'Jean Racine', (1933). Creator: Unknown.

Caption

'Jean Racine', (1933). Portrait of French poet and dramatist Jean Racine (1639-1699), one of the big three of 17th century France (along with Molière and Corneille). Racine was primarily a tragedian, though he did write one comedy. After a painting by Nicolas de Largilliere. From "Gestalten Der Weltgeschichte", a book of cigarette-card portrait miniatures of figures in world history from the last four hundred years. [Germany, 1933]
The Print Collector collection

Date

1933

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19D52_388

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

64,2Mb (2,7Mb) / 13,4in x 18,6in / 4018 x 5581 (300dpi)

Keywords

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