Portrait of Bishop Eustache Le Clerc de Lesseville. 1661

After the original by J. Die de Saint-Jean.
Engraving. 287 x 252.
There is an inscription on the perimeter of the oval frame: EVSTACHIVS DE LESSEVILLE EPISCOPVS CONSTANTIENSIS; under the image on the left: J. Dieu Pinxit.; on the right: R. Lochon faciebat.
Inv. G 382.
Literature: Nagler, Bd. 7, p. 571, № 14; Le Blanc, t. 2, p. 559, № 18; Bryan, v. 3, p. 237.

Dieu de Saint-Jean, Jean (1655?–1695) – french artist and engraver.

Lesseville, Eustache Le Clerc de (1614, Paris – 1665, Paris) – lawyer, doctor of canonical law and theology of the Sorbonne, from 1658 – bishop of Coutances (Normandy).