Portret van Nicolas De Lorgue

About this artwork

Prent uit: Vertot, René Aubert de. Histoire des Chevaliers hospitaliers de St Jean de Jérusalem. Parijs: Rollin, Quillau, Desaint, 1726. Illustratie op p. 413 van deel 1. Cars vervaardigde portretten van 65 grootmeesters van de Maltezer Orde.

Art Historical Context

This engraving by Laurent Cars, created in 1726, captures the likeness of Nicolas De Lorgue, a Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, also known as the Order of Malta. It forms part of René Aubert de Vertot’s multi-volume *Histoire des Chevaliers hospitaliers de St Jean de Jérusalem*, published in Paris that same year. The print appears on page 413 of the first volume and belongs to an ambitious series in which Cars produced portraits of sixty-five successive Grand Masters, bringing visual continuity to the order’s long and storied past. As an engraving, the work exemplifies the refined rep...

About the Artist

Laurent Cars · 1699–1771

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