print
- Museum number
- 1854,0614.191
- Title
- Object: Charles IX Roi de France
- Description
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Portrait of King Charles IX, bust-length, turned to the left, wearing hat adorned with feather, a high-necked doublet with ruff and a thick chain around the neck; two small figurative scenes in the lower part, on the left an assassination, on the right the massacre on St Bartholomew's Day
Etching and stipple
- Production date
- 1760-1790 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 191 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 111 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Engraved after an anonymous painting in the Musée Condé, Chantilly (PE 569) which copies a work by François Clouet (see related drawing in the Hermitage, St Petersburg). The attribution of the Musée Condé painting to Holbein has been rejected.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: French Wars of Religion 1562-1598
- Acquisition date
- 1854
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1854,0614.191