Hollstein 130. Pieter van Schuppen trained as a painter in Antwerp, where he joined the Guild of St Luke in 1651, van Schuppen settled in Paris in 1655 and became a pupil of Nanteuil. He extended his study of the history of printmaking in drawings copied after a variety of prints from different schools. He enjoyed a successful reputation as a portraitist and his engraving of Seiglères was particularly admired. He was made a member of the French Academy in 1663. This engraving is a superb life-size head of Joachim de Seiglères de Boisfranc, Treasurer to ‘Monsieur’ (Philippe de France) brother of Louis XIV, after the pastel by Alexandre du Buisson, abbé of the Monastery of Saint-Victor, Paris. Printed on strong laid paper, trimmed slightly into the image, with unobtrusive supported small tear and trace of a horizontal fold. With the publisher’s address of Guillaume Courtial.