Art, literature & history
Title page: Arnaud d'Andilly, Les Vies des saints pères des déserts
1647
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Engraving; second state of two (BN)
- Dimensions
- sheet: 9 15/16 x 7 9/16 in. (25.3 x 19.2 cm) plate: 8 15/16 x 6 7/16 in. (22.7 x 16.4 cm)
- Collection no.
- 17.3.3150
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Claude Mellan. Title page: Arnaud d'Andilly, Les Vies des saints pères des déserts. Claude Mellan; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
Title page: Arnaud d'Andilly, Les Vies des saints pères des déserts — Claude Mellan. 1647.
Medium: Engraving; second state of two (BN). Dimensions: sheet: 9 15/16 x 7 9/16 in. (25.3 x 19.2 cm) plate: 8 15/16 x 6 7/16 in. (22.7 x 16.4 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.