ENGRAVING XVII EME JEAN BAPTISTE VERDUC FRAME OF THE PERIOD DREVET CHARPENTIER M48 This engraving is XVII, and its frame is original.It represents the portrait of Jean Baptiste Verduc doctor of medicine out of age of 28 years. Jean-Baptiste Verduc was born in Toulouse. Doctor of medicine, he would have been a "man full of candor and charity". We owe him many works edited and reissued several times between 1693 and 1727: the Traite des Opérations de Surgery, a New Osteology, the Pathology of Surgery, the Master of Surgery… This portrait was engraved by Pierre Drevet for the book in-octavo published in 1693 by Laurent d'Houry: The operations of surgery. Printer Eugene Charpentier. You will notice that a XVIIth frame comes to marry this superb engraving.The margin has not been calculated for this frame, hence the irregularities that can be seen in particular the posterior cardboard.The frame is XVIIth with a very beautiful patina we guarantee the seniority.Lack to report on the frame small slits, on the engravings some traces of pitting and lack of margin.Charpentier (Painter), active approximately 1700? Drevet, Pierre, 1663-1738.LetteringIean Baptiste Verduc doctor in medicine aged 28. Carpenter pinxit; Drevet sculpses. By new secrets ... eternizes his life.Publications noteMarcel Roux and Edmond Pognon, Inventory of the French collection, 17th century engravers, National Library, Department of prints, volume VII, Paris 1951, p. 340, Pierre Drevet no. 117R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 3045.2On the perimeter of the oval, at the top, to the right. of the flagship: jean baptiste verduc doctor of medicine aged 28; in the border of the oval, below: Charpentier pinxit; Drevet Sculpsit; on the face of the plinth, four lines: By new secrets this excellent Genie // Penetrates nature, explains its springs: // And what it teaches us for the health of the body, // By prolonging our days eternalizes its life . ; Bust, without hands, head and body turned three-quarters to the left, gazing full-on, the doctor wears a long wig falling over the shoulders enveloped by the folds of his coat. Jean-Baptiste Verduc was born in Toulouse. Doctor of medicine, he would have been a "man full of candor and charity 1". We owe him many works edited and reissued several times between 1693 and 1727: the Traite des Opérations de Surgery, a New Osteology, the Pathology of Surgery, the Master of Surgery… This portrait was engraved by Pierre Drevet for the book in-octavo published in 1693 by Laurent d'Houry: The operations of surgery 2. It was therefore executed, if not in 1693, at least in 1692. Firmin-Didot inscribes the engraving of this portrait “before 1694”, the date of Verduc's death, but does not cite the work written by the latter. and published in 1693. (See volume I, pp. 183, 207). The work is sold uncleaned unrestored. For the state thank you for detailing the photos. The photos are an integral part of the description. VIEW dimensions: Height: 13.2 cm Width: 10 cm. Frame dimensions: Height:, 21.5 cm Width: 18 cm. Thickness: 2 cm I remain at your disposal for any questions.