Tableaux historiques, ou sont grauez les illustres francois et estrangers de l'un et de l'autre sexe : remarquables par leur naissance et leur fortune, doctrine, pieté, charges et emplois, auec les éloges sommaires contenans leurs noms et leurs qualitez, leurs peres et leurs meres, leurs aages, leurs mariages, les plus belles actions de leur vie et leurs armes blasonnées
A 1662 Paris portrait gallery of famous French and foreign men and women, engraved by Pierre Daret, Jean Frosne, Nicolas de Larmessin and others and sold by Louis Boissevin, with each oval likeness captioned by name, parentage, age, marriages, deeds and blazoned arms. The four pictures here are bust-length oval engraved portraits of armoured men with lace collars, long curled hair and moustaches, several with a shield of arms or an order cross at the bottom edge, showing how a 17th-century baroque engraver rendered armour, lace and ringlet hair in fine crosshatched lines a designer could borrow for period-styled monograms or frames.
