print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1868,0328.828
- Title
- Object: Maria Medicea H. IIII, coniux
- Description
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Portrait of Marie de Médicis, after van Dyck; three-quarter length, sitting on chair and turned to the left, with flower in left hand and handkerchief in the other; on the left, a crown rests upon a table; in the upper left corner, the arms of France; an illustration to an unidentified edition of Marc de Vulson de la Colombière's 'Les portraits des hommes illustres françois', with letterpress-printed text in French on verso
Engraving
- Production date
- 1650-1670 (c)
- Dimensions
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Height: 132 millimetres (cut)
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Width: 75 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- The prototype of this portrait is a painting by Van Dyck now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux (Larsen 511). Van Dyck's painting was copied by Philippe de Champaigne for the 'Galerie des hommes illustres' in the Palais-Cardinal; Champaigne's painting is now lost, but it was reproduced on a plate by François Bignon (engraver) and Zacharie Heince (intermediary draughtsman) which was used an as illustration to Marc de Vulson's 'Portraits des hommes illustres françois qui sont peints dans la Galerie du Palais Cardinal de Richelieu' (Paris, 1650).
Editions of the same text illustrated by plates copying Bignon's prints were issued (for instance by François Mauger in 1668). This plate probably belong to one of these. The text on verso (page 365) is from the chapter on the life of Henri IV.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Les portraits des hommes illustres françois
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0328.828
