"Portrait Of Nicolas Boileau Known As Despreaux (1636 - 1711), Oil Painting On Canvas, 18th Century "
He was a French man of letters of the great century, poet, translator, polemicist and theoretician of literature. He was considered in his time and by posterity as the legislator or the "Regent of Parnassus" for his passionate intransigence towards this literary movement..... 23 x 25 cm for the canvas 23 x 19 cm for the medallion.....