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LastDodo number
5151749
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Prints / graphics
Title
Iean Claude Ministre de Charenton
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14,3 x 10,0
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Half-length portrait of the preacher Jean Claude (1619-1687). He was a prominent Protestant clergyman in France who fled to the Netherlands after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, where he wrote the work "Plaintes des protestants cruellement opprimés dans le royaume de France". Copper engraving by Etienne Desrochers (1678-1741). Made around 1720.

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