Note 163 — LECTURE X. FRENCH ART IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.

Mellan not only made portraits after the celebrated painters of his time, he is himself the author of great and charming compositions, many of which serve as frontispieces to books. I willingly call attention to that one which is at the head of a folio edition of the Introduction à la Vie Dévote, and to the beautiful frontispieces of the writings of Richelieu, from the press of the Louvre.