Claude Mellan was behalve schilder en tekenaar vooral graveur. Hij had een geheel eigen, virtuose techniek. Zijn omvangrijke grafische oeuvre omvat bijna 400 bladen, waarvan de helft uit portretten bestaat.
…; collection Camille Groult (1837-1908), Paris; his son, Jean Groult (1868-1951), Paris; his sale, Paris (Galerie Charpentier), 21 March 1952, no. 18, as école française, bought in at frs. 140,000, with no. 19;{Copy RMA.}…; from the dealer Jacques Seligmann, New York, fl. 3,030.99, to the museum, with support from the F.G. Waller fonds, 1959
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