Oval portrait of Moliere, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, French actor, poet and playwright, 1622-1673. Moliere in a laurel wreath, frame with festoons, lyre, darts, oil lamp, dramatic masks, fool's marotte, etc. Copperplate engraving by Louis-Jacques Cathelin after a portrait by Pierre Mignard, taken from the cabinet of Melinier, published as the frontispiece to Bret's Oeuvres de Moliere avec des remarques grammaticales, La compagnie des libraires associes, Paris, 1773.

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