Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
Artist
Pier Leone Ghezzi
(Italian, 1674 - 1755)
Dateca. 1729
MediumPen and brown ink on paper
DimensionsOverall: 12 5/8 x 8 15/16 inches (32.1 x 22.7 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: gift of the Trustees and Staff of the Nelson Gallery in honor of Milton McGreevy
Object numberF80-9/1
On View
Not on viewCollections
Exhibition HistoryCaricature, Fashion and Fantasy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 18-December 14, 2014, no cat., as Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu.
Purchased
from Chaucer Fine Arts, London, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas
City, MO, 1980.
David Thomas Konig and Michael P. Zuckert, Jefferson’s Legal Commonplace Book (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019), 318, (repro.), as Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu.
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Pier Leone Ghezzi
ca. 1729
F80-9/2
Giovanni Segala
late 17th-early 18th century
44-29/4 A,B
