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A kneeling Diogenes, with a lantern in his hand and his barrel in the background, with a portrait of André-Hercule de Fleury (1653-1743) in an oval ornamental medallion. In the left foreground vegetables and in the background a tree. Below the portrait on the plinth two lines in Latin. Below the representation the name and details of the cardinal in two lines in French. Below that two columns, each with three lines in French. De Fleury was Bishop of Fréjus, Cardinal and Prime Minister under Louis XV. He was also a member of the Académie française. Copper engraving by Jacob Houbraken (1698-1780), after the painting by Antreau. Signed in print. Made in Amsterdam around 1740. Source: Rijksmuseum, 2015.
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