Art, literature & history
Alphonse du Plessis Richelieu, Cardinal of Lyon
1636
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 22.2 x 14.8 cm (8 3/4 x 5 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1991.164.12
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Claude Mellan. Alphonse du Plessis Richelieu, Cardinal of Lyon. Claude Mellan; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Claude_Mellan,_Alphonse_du_Plessis_Richelieu,_Cardinal_of_Lyon,_1636,_NGA_73734.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Alphonse du Plessis Richelieu, Cardinal of Lyon — Claude Mellan. 1636.
Medium: engraving on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 22.2 x 14.8 cm (8 3/4 x 5 13/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1991.164.12. Gift of John O'Brien.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.